Chitra Ramaswamy | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1979 (age 44–45)[1] |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | University of Glasgow |
| Occupation | Journalist |
Chitra Ramaswamy is a British journalist of South Asian descent and the author of Homelands: The History of a Friendship, published by Canongate Books, and Expecting: The Inner Life of Pregnancy, published by Saraband.
Ramaswamy is a restaurant critic for The Times[2] and a TV reviewer for The Guardian.[3]
Biography
Ramaswamy grew up in Richmond, London.[4]
She received a bachelor's degree in English Literature from University of Glasgow.[5]
She is bisexual[6] and lives in Edinburgh, Scotland with her partner and two children.[7]
Awards and honours
In 2016, Ramaswamy won the 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 named one of The Guardian's best memoirs of 2022.[10] and the Saltire Society Non-Fiction Book of the Year.[11]
Books
- Expecting: The Inner Life of Pregnancy (2016, Saraband, ISBN 978-1-9101-9221-4)
- Homelands: The History of a Friendship (2022, Canongate Books, ISBN 978-1-8388-5266-5)
References
- ↑ "Brick Lane in the 80s: before it became Banglatown". TheGuardian.com.
- ↑ "Chitra Ramaswamy | The Times & The Sunday Times". www.thetimes.co.uk.
- ↑ "Chitra Ramaswamy | The Guardian". the Guardian.
- ↑ "Author Chitra Ramaswamy on the forging of an unlikely friendship that inspired a book charting Europe's darkest hour".
- ↑ "I returned to uni for freshers' week 20 years after leaving. Here's what has changed". TheGuardian.com. Retrieved 2023-05-26.
- ↑ "Chitra Ramaswamy: Soon I'll be the Invisible Woman". The Scotsman. June 30, 2013.
- ↑ "Homelands by Chitra Ramaswamy - Canongate Books". canongate.co.uk.
- ↑ "Scotland's National Book Awards 2016".
- ↑ "Polari Salon".
- ↑ "The best memoirs and biographies of 2022". TheGuardian.com.
- ↑ "Scotland's National Book Awards 2022: Winners". The Saltire Society. December 8, 2022.