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Sujata Bhatt

1995 The Stinking Rose Carcanet Press

Sujata Bhatt (born 6 May 1956) is an Indian poet, a native speaker of Gujarati.

1997 Point No Point. Carcanet Press


2000: Augatora. Carcanet Press

Life and career

2002: The Colour of Solitude (Second edition). Carcanet Press

Sujata Bhatt was born in Ahmedabad, and brought up


in Pune until 1968, when she emigrated to United
States with her family. She has an MFA from the
University of Iowa, and for a time was writer-in-residence
at the University of Victoria, Canada. She received the
Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Asia) and the Alice Hunt
Bartlett Award for her rst collection Brunizem. [1] She
received a Cholmondeley Award in 1991 and the Italian Tratti Poetry Prize in 2000. [1] Her translations
from the German include Mickle Makes Muckle: poems,
mini plays and short prose by Michael Augustin (Dedalus
Press, 2007). Bhatt was a visiting fellow at Dickinson
College, Pennsylvania and currently works as a freelance
writer. She has translated Gujarati poetry into English for
the Penguin Anthology of Contemporary Indian Women
Poets. Combining Gujarati and English, Bhatt writes
Indian-English rather than Anglo-Indian poetry.[2] Her
poems have appeared in various journals in the United
Kingdom, Ireland, the United States, and Canada, and
have been widely anthologised, as well as being broadcast on British, German, and Dutch radio. In 2013 she
was made Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Nottingham Trent University.

2008: Pure Lizard. Carcanet Press

3 Awards
1988 Commonwealth poetry prize (Asia) Brunizem
1988 Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize Brunizem
1991 Poetry Book Society Recommendation Monkey Shadows
1991 Cholmondeley Award
2000 Poetry Book Society Recommendation Aguatora
2000 Tratti Poetry Prize

4 References
[1] Prole at the Poetry Archive

Michael Schmidt observed that her free verse is fastmoving, urgent with narratives, softly spoken. Her cadence is natural, her diction undecorated.[2] Bhatt has
been recognized as a distinctive voice in contemporary
poetry. She is, the New Statesman declared, one of
the nest poets alive.[3] Her poem 'A Dierent History'
dealing with the issues of globalization and westernization, featured in the poetry anthology used for IGCSE
English examinations, for examination in 2014.

[2] Schmidt, Michael: Lives of Poets, p860. Weidenfeld &


Nicolson, 1998.
[3] Schmidt, Michael: Lives of Poets, page 861. Weidenfeld
& Nicolson, 1998.

5 External links
Prole and poems written and audio at the Poetry
Archive

Bhatt now lives in Bremen, Germany with her husband,


the German writer Michael Augustin, and daughter.[1]
She is a Visiting Professor in Creative Writing at
Nottingham Trent University.

British Council prole


BBC Radio 4. Womans Hour 4 July 2002 (Audio 5
mins)

Poetry collections
1988 Brunizem Carcanet Press
1991 Monkey Shadows Carcanet Press
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