Arundhathi Subramaniam

Arundhathi Subramaniam is a leading Indian poet, described as “one of the finest poets writing in India today” (The Hindu, 2010) and “a unique poet of our times... in a league all by herself” (Indian Literature, 2021). Winner of he Sahitya Akademi Prize for Poetry 2020 (awarded by India’s national academy of letters), her fourteen books include Love Without a Story (Bloodaxe Books, 2020) and most recently, the Penguin anthology of Indian female sacred poetry, Wild Women (2024). Shortlisted for the prestigious TS Eliot Prize for Poetry in 2015, her various poetry awards include the Il Ceppo Prize in Italy, the Mahakavi Kanhaiyalal Sethia Award, the inaugural Khushwant Singh Prize, the Zee Women’s Award for Literature, the Raza Award for Poetry, the Mystic Kalinga Award, the Trinity Arts Festival Lifetime Achievement Award, the Homi Bhabha and Charles Wallace fellowships, among others. She has worked over the years as curator, critic and poetry editor, and divides her time between New York, Mumbai, and Chennai.