Sujata
Bhatt was
born in Ahmedabad, India. She grew up in
Pune, (India) and in the United States. She
received her MFA from the Writers’ Workshop at the University
of Iowa. To date, she has published seven collections of
poetry with Carcanet Press, UK. She
received the Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Asia) and the Alice
Hunt Bartlett Award for her first collection, Brunizem
(1988). Subsequent collections include
Monkey Shadows (PBS recommendation, 1991), The
Stinking Rose (short-listed for the Forward Poetry Prize,
1995), Point No Point (1997), Augatora
(PBS recommendation, 2000), A Colour
for Solitude (2002), which deals exclusively with the life
and work of the German painter, Paula Modersohn-Becker; and
Pure Lizard (short-listed for the
Forward Poetry Prize, 2008). She received a Cholmondeley Award in 1991, the
Italian Tratti Poetry Prize in 2000, and
the German Literature Prize, Das neue Buch, in 2008. She has translated Gujarati poetry into English for the
Penguin Anthology of Contemporary Indian Women’s
Poetry, and has translated poems by Günter Grass and
Günter Kunert. Her translations from the
German include Mickle Makes Muckle: poems, mini
plays & short prose by Michael Augustin, (Dedalus
Press, Dublin, 2007). She has been a
Lansdowne Visiting Writer at the University of Victoria, in
British Columbia, a Visiting Fellow at Dickinson College in
Pennsylvania, and more recently was Poet-in-Residence at The
Poetry Archive in London. Sujata Bhatt’s
work has been widely anthologised, broadcast on radio and
television, and has been translated into more than twenty
languages. Currently, she lives in Germany
with her husband and
daughter.
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