Sujata Bhatt (born 6 May 1956) is an Indian poet.

Life and career

Sujata Bhatt was born in Ahmedabad, Gujarat and brought up in Pune until 1968, when she immigrated to United States with her family. She has an Master of Fine Arts, 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 Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize for her first collection ''Brunizem'' in 1987.Profile at the Poetry Archive
/ref> She received a Cholmondeley Award in 1991 and Italian Tratti Poetry Prize in 2000. She has translated Gujarati language, Gujarati poetry into English language, English for the ''Penguin Anthology of Contemporary Indian Women Poets''. Combining Gujarati language, Gujarati and English language, English, Bhatt writes "Indian-English rather than Anglo-Indian poetry."Schmidt, Michael: ''Lives of Poets'', p860. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998. Michael Schmidt (poet) observed that her "free verse is fast-moving, urgent with narratives, softly spoken. Bhatt lives in Bremen, Germany with her husband, the German writer Michael Augustin, and daughter.

Poetry collections

*1988 ''Brunizem'' Carcanet Press *1989 ''The One Who Goes Away'' Carcanet Press *1991 ''Monkey Shadows'' Carcanet Press *1995 ''The Stinking Rose'' Carcanet Press *1997 ''Point No Point'' Carcanet Press *2000 ''Augatora'' Carcanet Press *2002 ''The Colour of Solitude'' (Second edition) Carcanet Press *2008 ''Pure Lizard'' Carcanet Press *---- ''A Different History''

References

External links

Profile and poems written and audio at the Poetry Archivepoems written archived at The Poetry Society UKBritish Council profile

BBC Radio 4. ''Woman's Hour'' 4 July 2002 (Audio 5 mins)
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