Chitra Ramaswamy
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Chitra Ramaswamy | |
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.jpg) Ramaswamy at the 2024 St. Andrew's Book Festival | |
| Born | 1979 (age 46–47)[1] |
| Alma mater | University of Glasgow |
| Occupation | Journalist |
Chitra Ramaswamy is a British 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]
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
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]