Chitra Ramaswamy

Chitra Ramaswamy
Ramaswamy at the 2024 St. Andrew's Book Festival
Born1979 (age 45–46)[1]
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Glasgow
OccupationJournalist

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

  • 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

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