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British writer
Chitra Ramaswamy
Ramaswamy at the 2024 St. Andrew's Book Festival
Born1979 (age 45–46)
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. She was one of the Guardian's TV reviewers.

Biography

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

Awards and honours

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

Books

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.

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