Sujata Bhatt's first book of poems, the award-winning Brunizem, appeared in 1988. In a very short time she has gained recognition as one of the distinct and reckonable new voices. She has things to say about her native India and her native tongue (Gujarati), about America and Britain, and about Germany where she now lives. She is, the New Statesman declared, 'one of the finest poets alive', and alive in a unique way to language, to issues of politics and gender, to place and history. Her's is a remarkable complete imagination, generous and at the same time unsparingly severe in its quest for the difficult truths of experience.

"Brunizem" won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Asia), an Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize, and a Cholmondeley Award for Poets, 1991. "Monkey Shadows" received a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, 1991.

About the Author
Sujata Bhatt was born May 6 1956 in Ahmedabad, India and raised in Pune, India. She has lived, studied and worked in the United States, and is a graduate of the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, Iowa City. She has published three collections of poetry with Carcanet, England and Penguin Books, India: Brunizem (1988) won the Alice Hunt Barlett prize and the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, (Asia). Monkey Shadows (1991) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. She received a Cholmondeley Award in 1991. In Spring 1992 she was the Lansdowne Visiting Writer/Professor at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. She now lives in Bremen with her husband, the German writer Michael Augustin, and their daughter.


Book Information
ISBN 9781857543063
Author Sujata Bhatt
Format Paperback
Page Count 160
Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd