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Chitra Ramaswamy

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Chitra Ramaswamy
Born1979 (age 44–45)[1]
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Glasgow
OccupationJournalist

Chitra Ramaswamy is a London journalist of South Asian descent. Her books are Homelands: The History of a Friendship, published by Canongate Books, and Expecting: The Inner Life of Pregnancy, published by Saraband.

Ramaswamy is currently a restaurant critic in Scotland for the Alba supplement in the Scottish edition of The Sunday Times.[2] She was one of the Guardian's TV reviewers.[3]

Biography

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Ramaswamy grew up in Richmond, London.[4] She has a BA in English Literature from University of Glasgow.[5] She is bisexual[6] and lives in Edinburgh, Scotland with her partner Claire and two children.[7]

Awards and honours

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In 2016, Ramaswamy won a Scottish first book award: Saltire Society Literary Awards' First Book of the Year Award.[8] and was shortlisted for the Polari Prize[9] In 2022, Homelands: The History of a Friendship was listed by The Guardian as one of its memoirs of 2022.[10] and the Saltire Society Non-Fiction Book of the Year.[11]

Books

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  • Expecting: The Inner Life of Pregnancy (2016, Saraband, ISBN 978-1-9101-9221-4)
  • Homelands: The History of a Friendship (2022, Canongate Books, ISBN 978-1-8388-5266-5)

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