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Arundhathi Subramaniam

Arundhathi Subramaniam is a leading Indian poet and author of fourteen books including an anthology of female mystic poetry, Wild Women (2024)and the prose work, Women Who Wear Only Themselves (2023). Shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize for Poetry 2015, she won several honours for poetry including the Sahitya Akademi Award (2020), the Mahakavi Kanhaiyalal Sethia Award, the inaugural Khushwant Singh Poetry Prize, the Il Ceppo Prize in Italy, the Raza Award, the Mystic Kalinga Award, the Charles Wallace and Homi Bhabha fellowships, among others. She is an active curator, performing arts critic, and poetry editor of the India domain of the Poetry International Web. Year: 2025, 2022, 2017.