Chitra Ramaswamy

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.

Chitra Ramaswamy
Born1979 (age 43–44)[1]
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Glasgow
OccupationJournalist

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
  1. "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. "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".
  9. "Polari Salon".
  10. "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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