Dipti Saravanamuttu (born 1960) is a contemporary

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and

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. Dipti Saravanamuttu was born in

and arrived in

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with her family in 1972. After studying English at

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, apart from writing, she has worked as a journalist, a scriptwriter and has taught at the

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. The subject matter of her poetry ranges from everyday conversation to literary theory with some emphasis on issues of social justice. Her collection ''The Colosseum'' won the

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Dinny O'Hearn award for Poetry in 2005.

Bibliography

Poetry

*''Statistic For The New World'' (Rochford Street, 1988) *''Language of the Icons'' (

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, 1993) *''The Colosseum'' (Five Islands, 2004)

Fiction

*''Dancing From The Edge of Darkness'' (Papyrus, 2000)

References

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