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Sujata Bhatt
Indian poet (born 1956)
Sujata Bhatt (born 6 May 1956) is an acclaimed Indian poet known for her evocative and culturally rich works, has carved a unique niche in the world of literature through her exploration of identity, language, and cultural intricacies. Born in India and exposed to diverse cultures through her global travels, Bhatt's life experiences have profoundly influenced her poetic expressions.[1]
Life and career
Sujata Bhatt was born in Ahmedabad, Gujarat and brought up in Pune , until she immigrated to United States with her family in 1968.[citation needed] She has an MFA from the University of Iowa, and for a time was writer-in-residence at the University of Victoria, Canada.[citation needed] She received the Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Asia) and Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize for her first collection Brunizem in 1987.[2] She received a Cholmondeley Award in 1991 and Italian Tratti Poetry Prize in 2000.[2] She has translated Gujarati poetry into English for the Penguin Anthology of Conte Sujata Bhatt (b. 1956) grew up in Pune but emigrated with her family to the United States in 1968. She studied in the States receiving an MFA from the University of Iowa and went on to be writer-in-residence at the University of Victoria, Canada. More recently she was visiting fellow at Dickinson College, Pennsylvania. She currently lives with her husband and daughter in Bremen, Germany. Her first collection, Brunizem, won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Asia) and the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award. Subsequent collections have been awarded a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and in 1991 she received a Cholmondeley Award. For Bhatt, language is synonymous with the tongue, the physical act of speaking. She has described Gujarati and the Indian childhood it connects her to as “the deepest layer of my identity”. However, English has become the language she speaks every day and which she, largely, chooses to write in. The repercussions of this divided heritage are explored in her work, most explicitly in ‘Search for My Tongue’ which alternates betwee
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Interview with Sujata Bhatt
PNR 138...
SUJATA BHATT IN CONVERSATION
with Vicki Bertram
VICKI BERTRAM: Could you tell me about your childhood: what kind of childhood it was, and then, maybe, how you think it creeps into your writing? Were you also writing then? When did you start writing?
SUJATA BHATT: I was born in Ahmedabad, India, in 1956 - and spent my first months in my maternal grandmother's home. In India it is a custom for women to go to their parents' home for the birth of their children and so my mother had gone to Ahmedabad for my birth. My father was working in Poona then and my parents lived in a flat there. Well, some of the crucial years of my childhood took place in India - in Gujarat and in Maharashtra to be more precise. I find it difficult to summarise or 'explain' my childhood. In a way, it's all there in my poems. Poems such as 'Muliebrity', 'The Doors are Always Open', 'Buffaloes', 'Udaylee', 'Living with Trains', (from Brunizem) and 'Maninagar Days', 'Understanding the Ramayana', 'The Daily Offering', 'The Echoes in Poona', •
Sujata Bhatt