Chitra Ramaswamy Explained

Chitra Ramaswamy
Birth Date:[1]
Alma Mater:University of Glasgow
Occupation:Journalist
Nationality:British

Chitra Ramaswamy is a London journalist of South Asian descent. Her books are Homelands: The History of a Friendship, published by Canongate Books, and Expecting: The Inner Life of Pregnancy, published by Saraband.

Ramaswamy is currently a restaurant critic in Scotland for the Alba supplement in the Scottish edition of The Sunday Times.[2] She was one of the Guardian's TV reviewers.[3]

Biography

Ramaswamy grew up in Richmond, London.[4] She has a BA in English Literature from University of Glasgow.[5] She is bisexual[6] and lives in Edinburgh, Scotland with her partner Claire and two children.[7]

Awards and honours

In 2016, Ramaswamy won a Scottish first book award: Saltire Society Literary Awards' First Book of the Year Award.[8] and was shortlisted for the Polari Prize[9] In 2022, Homelands: The History of a Friendship was listed by The Guardian as one of its memoirs of 2022.[10] and the Saltire Society Non-Fiction Book of the Year.[11]

Books

References

  1. News: Brick Lane in the 80s: before it became Banglatown. . 6 March 2017 . Ramaswamy . Chitra .
  2. Web site: Chitra Ramaswamy | The Times & The Sunday Times. www.thetimes.co.uk.
  3. Web site: Chitra Ramaswamy | The Guardian. the Guardian.
  4. Web site: Author Chitra Ramaswamy on the forging of an unlikely friendship that inspired a book charting Europe's darkest hour .
  5. News: I returned to uni for freshers' week 20 years after leaving. Here's what has changed. . 30 September 2019 . 2023-05-26 . Ramaswamy . Chitra .
  6. Web site: Chitra Ramaswamy: Soon I'll be the Invisible Woman. June 30, 2013. The Scotsman.
  7. Web site: Homelands by Chitra Ramaswamy - Canongate Books. canongate.co.uk.
  8. Web site: Scotland's National Book Awards 2016 . 30 June 2016.
  9. Web site: Polari Salon .
  10. News: The best memoirs and biographies of 2022. . 3 December 2022 . Sturges . Fiona .
  11. Web site: Scotland's National Book Awards 2022: Winners. December 8, 2022. The Saltire Society.

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