Carole Lavinia Satyamurti (or Sathyamurthy; ; 13 August 1939 – 13 August 2019) was a British poet, sociologist, and translator.

Personal life

Satyamurti grew up in

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, and lived in

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and

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. She lived in

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until her death on 13 August 2019, aged 80.

Career

She taught at the

University of East London University of East London (UEL) is a public university located in the London Borough of Newham, London, England, based at three campuses in Stratford, London, Stratford and London Docklands, Docklands, following the opening of University Squar ...

and at the

Tavistock Clinic The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust based in north London. The Trust specialises in talking therapies. The education and training department caters for 2,000 students a year from the United Kin ...

, where her main interest was relating psychoanalytic ideas to the stories people tell about themselves, whether in formal autobiography or everyday encounters. She was a

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at the

University of Sussex The University of Sussex is a public university, public research university, research university located in Falmer, East Sussex, England. It lies mostly within the city boundaries of Brighton and Hove. Its large campus site is surrounded by the ...

and the

College of Charleston The College of Charleston (CofC or Charleston) is a public university in Charleston, South Carolina, United States. Founded in 1770 and chartered in 1785, it is the oldest university in South Carolina, the 13th-oldest institution of higher lea ...

. She taught for the

Arvon Foundation The Arvon Foundation is a charitable organisation in the United Kingdom that promotes creative writing. Arvon is one of Arts Council England's National Portfolio Organisations. Andrew Kidd is the Chief Executive Officer, and Patricia Cumper is ...

and for the

Poetry School Poetry School is a national arts organisation, registered charity and adult education centre providing creative writing tuition, with teaching centres throughout England as well as online courses and downloadable activities. It was founded in 1997 ...

. She was vice-president of Ver Poets, a group of writers and poetry lovers based in

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. She ran poetry programmes in

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and the

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in London, with Gregory Warren Wilson.

Awards

Satyamurti won many awards including: * 1986

National Poetry Competition The National Poetry Competition is an annual poetry prize established in 1978 in the United Kingdom. It is run by UK-based The Poetry Society and accepts entries from all over the world, with over 10,000 poems being submitted to the competition ...

* 1988 and 2008

Arts Council An arts council is a government or private non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the arts; mainly by funding local artists, awarding prizes, and organizing arts events. They often operate at arms-length from the government to prevent pol ...

Writers' Award * 2000

Cholmondeley Award The Cholmondeley Awards ( ) are annual awards for poetry given by the Society of Authors in the United Kingdom. Awards honour distinguished poets, from a fund endowed by the Dowager Marchioness of Cholmondeley in 1966. Since 1991 the award has bee ...

* 2007 short-listed

Forward Prize The Forward Prizes for Poetry are major British awards for poetry, presented annually at a public ceremony in London. They were founded in 1992 by William Sieghart with the aim of celebrating excellence in poetry and increasing its audience. The ...

*201
Roehampton Poetry Prize

Works

* ttp://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.asp?id=8267 "Villanelle", ''Ambit'', No 165 2001
"When He is Silent", ''Ambit'', No 165 2001
* * * * * * * *''Mahabharata: A Modern Retelling''. W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2015.

Translations

"Two Women", Toeti Heraty, ''Poetry Translation Centre''

"A Woman's Portrait 1938", Toeti Heraty, ''Poetry Translation Centre''

"Geneva in July", Toeti Heraty, ''Poetry Translation Centre''

"Jogging in Jakarta", Toeti Heraty, ''Poetry Translation Centre''
*from The Mahabharata
The Poetry Society

Anthologies

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Editor

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Satyamurti, Carole 1939 births 2019 deaths English women poets Academics of the University of East London People from Kent English sociologists 20th-century English poets 20th-century British translators 20th-century English women writers