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{{short description|English language Indian poet}}
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| birth_name = Arundhathi
| birth_name       = Arundhathi
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| birth_date       = {{birth year and age|1973}}
| birth_place = India
| birth_place     = [[Coimbatore]], [[Tamilnadu]], India
| alma_mater = JB Petit High School, [[St. Xavier's College]], Mumbai, [[University of Mumbai]]
| alma_mater       = JB Petit High School, [[St. Xavier's College]], Mumbai, [[University of Mumbai]]<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Karmakar |first1=Goutam |title=Interview: Arundhathi Subramaniam |url=https://www.setumag.com/2017/10/interview-arundhathi-subramaniam.html |magazine=Setu Magazine |date=October 2017 |access-date=15 January 2022}}</ref>
| occupation = Poet, writer, Journalist, critic, Curator
| occupation       = Poet, writer
| awards = [[Sahitya Akademi Award]]
| awards           = [[Sahitya Akademi Award]]
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'''Arundhathi Subramaniam''' is an Indian poet, writer, critic, curator, translator, Journalist, writing in English.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.poemhunter.com/arundhathi-subramaniam/biography/|title=Biography of Arundhathi Subramaniam}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/arundhathi-subramaniam|title=Arundhathi Subramaniam}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.setumag.com/2017/10/interview-arundhathi-subramaniam.html|title=Interview: Arundhathi Subramaniam|access-date=2017-10-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://penguin.co.in/author/arundhathi-subramaniam/|title=Arundhathi Subramaniam}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.poetryinternational.org/pi/poet/12079/Arundhathi-Subramaniam/en/nocache|title=Arundhathi Subramaniam |access-date=2008-06-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/books/always-and-forever-love-without-a-storyarundhathi-subramaniam-5795327/|title=Arundhathi Subramaniam's new volume of poetry is unpredictable and utterly compelling|newspaper=The Indian Express |language=en |access-date=2019-06-23}}</ref>
'''Arundhathi Subramaniam''' is an Indian poet and author, who has written about culture and spirituality.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://penguin.co.in/author/arundhathi-subramaniam/|title=Arundhathi Subramaniam|access-date=27 August 2019|archive-date=29 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190829063630/https://penguin.co.in/author/arundhathi-subramaniam/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.poetryinternational.org/pi/poet/12079/Arundhathi-Subramaniam/en/nocache|title=Arundhathi Subramaniam |access-date=1 June 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/books/always-and-forever-love-without-a-storyarundhathi-subramaniam-5795327/|title=Arundhathi Subramaniam's new volume of poetry is unpredictable and utterly compelling|first=Keki|last= Daruwalla|newspaper=The Indian Express |language=en |date=June 23, 2019|access-date=23 June 2019}}</ref> She was born in [[Coimbatore]], Tamilnadu, South India.


== Life and career ==
== Life and career ==
ARUNDHATHI SUBRAMANIAM is the award-winning author of thirteen books of poetry and prose, including the recent poetry volume, ''Love Without a Story'', and a book of essays on contemporary women on sacred journeys, ''Women Who Wear Only Themselves''. Her other work includes the acclaimed sacred poetry anthology, ''Eating God'' and the bestselling biography of a mystic, ''Sadhguru: More Than a Life.'' A well-known prose writer on Indian spirituality, she has been a long-standing arts critic, anthologist, performing arts curator and poetry editor.  
Subramaniam is a poet and writer based in [[Mumbai]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Arundhathi Subramaniam |url=https://www.poetryinternational.com/poets-poems/poets/poet/102-12079_Subramaniam |access-date=2022-09-05 |website=www.poetryinternational.com |language=nl}}</ref> She is the author of 13 books of poetry and prose.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-09-17 |title=Arundhathi Subramaniam - JLF Houston |url=https://jlflitfest.org/houston/speaker/arundhathi-subramaniam-2438 |access-date=2022-09-05 |website=jlflitfest.org/ |language=en}}</ref>


She is the recipient of various awards and fellowships, including the Sahitya Akademi Award, the inaugural Khushwant Singh Prize, the Raza Award for Poetry, the Zee Women’s Award for Literature, the International Piero Bigongiari Prize in Italy, the Mystic Kalinga award, the Charles Wallace, Visiting Arts and Homi Bhabha Fellowships, among others. She has written extensively on culture and spirituality, and has worked over the years as poetry editor, cultural curator and critic. 
She has received the Raza Award for Poetry,<ref>{{Cite web |last=admin |title=Arundhathi Subramaniam {{!}} The Raza Foundation |url=https://www.therazafoundation.in/awards-Arundhathi-Subramaniam |access-date=2026-03-05 |website=Arundhathi Subramaniam - The Raza Foundation |language=en-us}}</ref> the Zee Women's Award for Literature, the International Piero Bigongiari Prize in Italy, the Charles Wallace, Visiting Arts and Homi Bhabha Fellowships.{{citation needed|date=December 2021}}


Arundhathi Subramaniam's volume of poetry, ''When God is a Traveller'' (2014) was the Season Choice of the Poetry Book Society, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. She is the recipient of various awards and fellowships, including the Sahitya Akademi Award, inaugural Khushwant Singh Prize, the Raza Award for Poetry, the Zee Women's Award for Literature, the International Piero Bigongiari Prize in Italy, the Mystic Kalinga award, the Charles Wallace, Visiting Arts and Homi Bhabha Fellowships, among others. Arundhathi has won the [https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/books/features/arundhathi-subramaniam-anamika-m-veerappa-moily-win-sahitya-akademi-award/articleshow/81493294.cms Sahitya Akademi Award] for ''When God is a Traveller'' .
Her volume of poetry, ''When God Is a Traveller'' was the Season Choice of the Poetry Book Society,{{citation needed|date=December 2021}} was shortlisted for the [[T. S. Eliot Prize]] in 2015,<ref name="TheHindu-Nov07">{{cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/journeys-with-god/article6574672.ece |title=Journeys with God|newspaper= The Hindu|date= 7 November 2014|first=Parshathy J. |last=Nath}}</ref> and won the Sahitya Akademi Award<ref>{{Cite news |date=2021-03-14 |title=Arundhathi Subramaniam, Anamika, M Veerappa Moily win Sahitya Akademi Award |work=The Times of India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/books/features/arundhathi-subramaniam-anamika-m-veerappa-moily-win-sahitya-akademi-award/articleshow/81493294.cms?from=mdr |access-date=2023-10-19 |issn=0971-8257}}</ref> for the year 2020.


As prose writer, her books include ''The Book of Buddha'', a bestselling biography of a contemporary mystic, ''Sadhguru: More Than a Life'' and most recently, ''Women Who Wear only Themsleves (Speaking Tiger, 2021)''. As editor, her most recent book is the Penguin anthology of sacred poetry, ''Eating God''.
Her poetry has been published in ''Reasons for Belonging: Fourteen Contemporary Poets'' (Penguin India); ''Sixty Indian Poets'' (Penguin India), ''Both Sides of the Sky'' (National Book Trust, India), ''We Speak in Changing Languages'' (Sahitya Akademi), ''Fulcrum No 4: An Annual of Poetry and Aesthetics'' (Fulcrum Poetry Press, US), ''The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets'' (Bloodaxe, UK), ''Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry''<ref>{{cite web |title=Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry |url=http://bigbridge.org/BB17/poetry/indianpoetryanthology/Arundhathi_Subramaniam.html |access-date=9 June 2016 |publisher=BigBridge.Org}}</ref> (United States), ''[[The Dance of the Peacock]]: An Anthology of English Poetry from India'',<ref>{{cite news|last1=Grove|first1=Richard|title=The Dance of the Peacock:An Anthology of English Poetry from India|url=http://hiddenbrookpress.com/Book-Indo-EnglishPoetry.html|access-date=5 January 2015|issue=current|publisher=Hidden Brook Press, Canada|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180929050126/http://hiddenbrookpress.com/Book-Indo-EnglishPoetry.html|archive-date=29 September 2018|url-status=dead}} {{verify source |date=September 2019 |reason=This ref was deleted Special:Diff/893567847 by a bug in VisualEditor and later restored by a bot from the original cite located at Special:Permalink/893405019 cite #5 - verify the cite is accurate and delete this template. [[User:GreenC bot/Job 18]]}}</ref> featuring 151 Indian English poets, edited by Vivekanand Jha and published by Hidden Brook Press,<ref>{{cite web |title=Hidden Brook Press |url=http://hiddenbrookpress.com |access-date=5 January 2015 |publisher=Hidden Brook Press}}</ref> Canada, and ''Atlas: New Writing'' (Crossword/ Aark Arts).


Her poetry has been published in various international journals and anthologies, including ''Reasons for Belonging: Fourteen Contemporary Poets'' (Penguin India); ''Sixty Indian Poets'' (Penguin India), ''Both Sides of the Sky'' (National Book Trust, India),''We Speak in Changing Languages'' (Sahitya Akademi), ''Fulcrum No 4: An Annual of Poetry and Aesthetics'' (Fulcrum Poetry Press, US), ''The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets'' (Bloodaxe, UK), ''Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry''<ref>{{cite web|title=Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry|url=http://bigbridge.org/BB17/poetry/indianpoetryanthology/Arundhathi_Subramaniam.html|publisher=BigBridge.Org|access-date=9 June 2016}} {{verify source |date=September 2019 |reason=This ref was deleted Special:Diff/893567847 by a bug in VisualEditor and later restored by a bot from the original cite located at Special:Permalink/893405019 cite #4 - verify the cite is accurate and delete this template. [[User:GreenC bot/Job 18]]}}</ref>( United States ), ''[[The Dance of the Peacock]]: An Anthology of English Poetry from India'',<ref>{{cite news|last1=Grove|first1=Richard|title=The Dance of the Peacock:An Anthology of English Poetry from India|url=http://hiddenbrookpress.com/Book-Indo-EnglishPoetry.html|access-date=5 January 2015|issue=current|publisher=Hidden Brook Press, Canada|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180929050126/http://hiddenbrookpress.com/Book-Indo-EnglishPoetry.html|archive-date=29 September 2018|url-status=dead}} {{verify source |date=September 2019 |reason=This ref was deleted Special:Diff/893567847 by a bug in VisualEditor and later restored by a bot from the original cite located at Special:Permalink/893405019 cite #5 - verify the cite is accurate and delete this template. [[User:GreenC bot/Job 18]]}}</ref> featuring 151 Indian English poets, edited by Vivekanand Jha and published by Hidden Brook Press,<ref>{{cite web|last1=Press|first1=Hidden Brook|title=Hidden Brook Press|url=http://hiddenbrookpress.com|publisher=Hidden Brook Press|access-date=5 January 2015}} {{verify source |date=September 2019 |reason=This ref was deleted Special:Diff/893567847 by a bug in VisualEditor and later restored by a bot from the original cite located at Special:Permalink/893405019 cite #6 - verify the cite is accurate and delete this template. [[User:GreenC bot/Job 18]]}}</ref> Canada. and ''Atlas: New Writing'' (Crossword/ Aark Arts)
She has worked as Head of Dance and Chauraha (an inter-arts forum) at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Mumbai, and has been Editor of the India domain of the Poetry International Web.{{citation needed|date=December 2021}}
 
She has worked as Head of Dance and Chauraha (an inter-arts forum) at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Mumbai, and has been Editor of the India domain of the Poetry International Web.


==Awards==
==Awards==
*'''Khushwant Singh Memorial Prize for Poetry''': On 25 January 2015, Arundhathi won the first [[Khushwant Singh]] Memorial Prize for Poetry for her work ''When God is a Traveller''. The prize was announced as part of ZEE [[Jaipur Literature Festival]].<ref name="TheHindu">[http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/arundhathi-subramaniam-wins-poetry-prize-at-jaipur-lit-fest/article6819441.ece Arundhathi Subramaniam wins poetry prize], The Hindu 25 January 2015.</ref>
On 25 January 2015, Subramaniam won the first [[Khushwant Singh]] Memorial Prize for her Poetry work 'When God Is a Traveller'.<ref name="TheHindu-Jan25">{{cite news|first=Aarti |last=Dhar |url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/arundhathi-subramaniam-wins-poetry-prize-at-jaipur-lit-fest/article6819441.ece |title=Arundhathi Subramaniam wins poetry prize|newspaper=The Hindu|date= 25 January 2015}}</ref>


*'''Mystic Kalinga Literary Award''': On 22 December 2017, Arundhathi won the first Mystic Kalinga Literary Award for her work in English Literature. The prize was announced as part of Mystic Kalinga - An International Festival of Mythology, poetry and performance, Kalinga Literary Festival.<ref name="TheTimesof India">[https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/books/features/arundhathi-subramaniam-nabaneeta-sen-soubhagya-mishra-honoured-with-first-mystic-kalinga-literary-awards/articleshow/62219009.cms Arundhathi Subramaniam honoured with first Mystic Kalinga Literary Awards], The Times of India 23 December 2017.</ref>
On 22 December 2017, Subramaniam won the first Mystic Kalinga Literary Award, announced during the Kalinga Literary Festival.<ref name="TheTimesof India">[https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/books/features/arundhathi-subramaniam-nabaneeta-sen-soubhagya-mishra-honoured-with-first-mystic-kalinga-literary-awards/articleshow/62219009.cms Arundhathi Subramaniam honoured with first Mystic Kalinga Literary Awards], ''The Times of India'', 23 December 2017.</ref>


* [[List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for English|'''Sahitya Akademi Award 2020 for English''']] - ''When God is a Traveller'' (poetry)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.indianexpress.com/article/books-and-literature/veerappa-moily-arundhathi-subramania-among-others-to-receive-sahitya-akademi-award-2020-7225734/lite/|title=Veerappa Moily, Arundhathi Subramania among others to receive Sahitya Akademi Award-2020|work=Indian Express|date=12 March 2021}}</ref>
She won the [[List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for English|Sahitya Akademi Award for English]] in 2020 for ''When God Is a Traveller''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.indianexpress.com/article/books-and-literature/veerappa-moily-arundhathi-subramania-among-others-to-receive-sahitya-akademi-award-2020-7225734/lite/|title=Veerappa Moily, Arundhathi Subramania among others to receive Sahitya Akademi Award-2020|work=Indian Express|date=12 March 2021}}</ref>


==Bibliography==
==Bibliography==
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===Books===
=== Poetry ===
*''Love Without a Story''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/arundhathi-subramaniams-latest-book-is-on-love/article29100575.ece2019.|title=Arundhathi Subramaniam's latest book is on Love |newspaper=The Hindu|first=Geetha|last= Venkataramanan|language=en |date=15 August 2019|access-date=15 August 2019}}</ref> {{ISBN|978-9388689458}}
*''When God Is a Traveller''.{{ISBN|978-9388689458}},<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/review-book-review-when-god-is-a-traveller-2020235|title=Book Review: When God is a Traveller |newspaper=The DNA|language=en|first=Vivek |last=Tandon|date=5 December 2017|access-date=24 September 2014}}</ref>
*''Where I Live: New & Selected Poems''. [[Bloodaxe Books]] [[UK]], 2009.
*''Where I Live'' (Poetry in English). Allied Publishers [[India]], 2005.
*''On Cleaning Bookshelves'' (Poetry in English). Allied Publishers [[India]], 2001.


====Poetry collections====
* [[The Gallery of Upside Down Women]]
*''Love Without a Story''. [[Amazon Westland<ref>https://www.amazon.in/Love-Without-Story-Arundhathi-Subramaniam/dp/9388689453/ref=sr 1 2?qid=1555921023&refinements=p 27%3AArundhathi+Subramaniam&s=books&sr=1-2</ref>]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/arundhathi-subramaniams-latest-book-is-on-love/article29100575.ece2019.|title=Arundhathi Subramaniam's latest book is on Love |newspaper=The Hindu|language=en |access-date=2019-08-15}}</ref> {{ISBN|978-9388689458}}
*''When God Is a Traveller''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://harpercollins.co.in/book/when-god-is-a-traveller/|title=When God Is a Traveller }}</ref> {{ISBN|978-9388689458}},<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/review-book-review-when-god-is-a-traveller-2020235|title=Book Review: When God is a Traveller |newspaper=The DNA|language=en |access-date=2014-09-24}}</ref> {{ISBN|978-9388689458}} [[Bloodaxe Books]], [[UK]], 2014. {{ISBN|978-9351363019}}
*''Where I Live: New & Selected Poems''. [[Bloodaxe Books]] [[UK]], 2009.
*''Where I Live''. (Poetry in English). [[Allied Publishers]] [[India]], 2005.
*''On Cleaning Bookshelves''. (Poetry in English). [[Allied Publishers]] [[India]], 2001.


====Prose====
=== Prose ===
*''[https://www.speakingtigerbooks.com/women-who-wear-only-themselves Women Who Wear Only Themselves]'', Speaking Tiger, 2021
*''[https://www.speakingtigerbooks.com/women-who-wear-only-themselves Women Who Wear Only Themselves] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211026211833/https://www.speakingtigerbooks.com/women-who-wear-only-themselves |date=26 October 2021 }}'', Speaking Tiger, 2021
*''Adiyogi: The Source of Yoga'' ''(co-author with Sadhguru)''  Harper Element, 2017, {{ISBN|978-9352643929}}
*''Adiyogi: The Source of Yoga'' ''(co-author with Sadhguru)''  Harper Element, 2017, {{ISBN|978-9352643929}}
*''Sadhguru: More Than A Life'', biography, Penguin Ananda, 2010 (third reprint)
*''Sadhguru: More Than A Life'', biography, Penguin Ananda, 2010 (third reprint)
*''The Book of Buddha'', Penguin, 2005 (reprinted several times)
*''The Book of Buddha'', Penguin, 2005 (reprinted several times)


====As Editor====
=== As editor ===
*''Pilgrim’s India (An Anthology of Essays and Poems on Sacred Journeys)'', Penguin, 2011
*''Pilgrim's India (An Anthology of Essays and Poems on Sacred Journeys)'', Penguin, 2011
*''Confronting Love'' (An Anthology of Contemporary Indian Love Poems) (Co-edited with Jerry Pinto), Penguin, 2005
*''Confronting Love'' (An Anthology of Contemporary Indian Love Poems) (co-edited with [[Jerry Pinto]]), Penguin, 2005
* ''Eating God: A Book of Bhakti Poetry'', Penguin, 2014
* ''Eating God: A Book of Bhakti Poetry'', Penguin, 2014
 
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===Essays===
*{{cite journal |author=Subramaniam, Arundhati |date=12 January 2015 |title=A lovely strangeness |journal=[[Outlook (Indian magazine)|Outlook]] |volume=55 |issue=1 |pages=92–93 |url=http://www.outlookindia.com/article/a-lovely-strangeness/292942 |access-date=2016-01-07}}
 
===Interviews===
* MINT (2014) Writers at work, [http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/PSqqX7RG9Hiv9xvPm9mADL/Writers-at-work--Arundhati-Subramaniam.html Arundhati Subramaniam]
* Indian Express (2016), [http://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/books/maharashtra-mitra-mandal-library-in-bandra-mcubed-poetry-arundhathi-subramaniam-4375619/ ‘I’ve relaxed into myself’]
*Indian Express (2019), ‘[https://indianexpress.com/article/express-sunday-eye/love-doubt-and-other-filters-5768132/ Love, Doubt, and Other Filters]’
*eShe (2019), [https://eshe.in/2019/07/03/arundhathi-subramaniam/]
 
====Appearances in the following poetry Anthologies====
* ''Travelogue : The Grand Indian Express'' (2018) ed. by Dr. Ananad Kumar and published by Authorspress, [[New Delhi]]
* ''A New Book of Indian Poems In English'' (2000) ed. by [[Gopi Kottoor]] and published by [[Poetry Chain]] and [[Writers Workshop]], [[Calcutta]]
* ''A Decade of Poetry'' ( 1997–98 ) eds. Prabhanjan K. Mishra, Menka Shivdasani, [[Jerry Pinto]] and [[Ranjit Hoskote]] Special edition (Vols. 6 and 7) of Poiesis : A Journal of Poetry Circle, [[Bombay]]


==See also==
==See also==
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== External links ==
== External links ==
* [https://arundhathisubramaniam.com Official website]
* [https://arundhathisubramaniam.com Official website]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110721051923/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=12079&x=1 About Arundhathi Subramaniam and her poems]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120310081537/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=12080 Arundhathi Subramaniam talks to Jules Mann about poetry, habitat, threshold politics, grace and a city that’s a part of her DNA]


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Arundhathi Subramaniam
BornArundhathi
1973 (age 52–53)
Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India
OccupationPoet, writer
Alma materJB Petit High School, St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, University of Mumbai[1]
Notable awardsSahitya Akademi Award

Arundhathi Subramaniam is an Indian poet and author, who has written about culture and spirituality.[2][3][4] She was born in Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, South India.

Life and career[edit | edit source]

Subramaniam is a poet and writer based in Mumbai.[5] She is the author of 13 books of poetry and prose.[6]

She has received the Raza Award for Poetry,[7] the Zee Women's Award for Literature, the International Piero Bigongiari Prize in Italy, the Charles Wallace, Visiting Arts and Homi Bhabha Fellowships.[citation needed]

Her volume of poetry, When God Is a Traveller was the Season Choice of the Poetry Book Society,[citation needed] was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2015,[8] and won the Sahitya Akademi Award[9] for the year 2020.

Her poetry has been published in Reasons for Belonging: Fourteen Contemporary Poets (Penguin India); Sixty Indian Poets (Penguin India), Both Sides of the Sky (National Book Trust, India), We Speak in Changing Languages (Sahitya Akademi), Fulcrum No 4: An Annual of Poetry and Aesthetics (Fulcrum Poetry Press, US), The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets (Bloodaxe, UK), Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry[10] (United States), The Dance of the Peacock: An Anthology of English Poetry from India,[11] featuring 151 Indian English poets, edited by Vivekanand Jha and published by Hidden Brook Press,[12] Canada, and Atlas: New Writing (Crossword/ Aark Arts).

She has worked as Head of Dance and Chauraha (an inter-arts forum) at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Mumbai, and has been Editor of the India domain of the Poetry International Web.[citation needed]

Awards[edit | edit source]

On 25 January 2015, Subramaniam won the first Khushwant Singh Memorial Prize for her Poetry work 'When God Is a Traveller'.[13]

On 22 December 2017, Subramaniam won the first Mystic Kalinga Literary Award, announced during the Kalinga Literary Festival.[14]

She won the Sahitya Akademi Award for English in 2020 for When God Is a Traveller.[15]

Bibliography[edit | edit source]

Poetry[edit | edit source]

  • Love Without a Story[16] ISBN 978-9388689458
  • When God Is a Traveller.ISBN 978-9388689458,[17]
  • Where I Live: New & Selected Poems. Bloodaxe Books UK, 2009.
  • Where I Live (Poetry in English). Allied Publishers India, 2005.
  • On Cleaning Bookshelves (Poetry in English). Allied Publishers India, 2001.

Prose[edit | edit source]

As editor[edit | edit source]

  • Pilgrim's India (An Anthology of Essays and Poems on Sacred Journeys), Penguin, 2011
  • Confronting Love (An Anthology of Contemporary Indian Love Poems) (co-edited with Jerry Pinto), Penguin, 2005
  • Eating God: A Book of Bhakti Poetry, Penguin, 2014

See also[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. Karmakar, Goutam (October 2017). "Interview: Arundhathi Subramaniam". Setu Magazine. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  2. "Arundhathi Subramaniam". Archived from the original on 29 August 2019. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
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