Sujata Bhatt

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Sujata Bhatt (born 1956 in Ahmedabad, India) is a poet, a native speaker of Gujarati. She has written many poems, most prominent of which is the English poem Search For My Tongue. She was raised in Pune until 1968 when she emigrated to the United States with her family. She has an MFA from the University of Iowa and for a time was writer-in-residence at the University of Victoria, Canada. More recently she was a visiting fellow at Dickinson College, Pennsylvania. She currently works as a freelance writer and has translated Gujarati poetry into English for the Penguin Anthology of Contemporary Indian Women Poets. Her poems have appeared in various journals in the UK, Ireland, the United States, and Canada and have been widely anthologised, as well as being broadcast on British, German and Dutch Radio. Bhatt now lives in Bremen, Germany with her husband, German writer Michael Augustin, and daughter.

Many of her poems have love and violence as themes, and explore issues such as racism and the interaction between Asian, European and North American culture. The subject matter of her poetry has ranged from political strife to eroticism.

[edit] Awards

• Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Asia)
• Alice Hunt Bartlett Award
• Cholmondeley Award

Collections of her poems have also been awarded a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

[edit] References

• Sujata Bhatt at the Poetry Archive
• Sujata Bhatt at Carcanet Press
• Grand Children of Albion New Departues, 1992. pg 372 ISBN 0 902689 14 2