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Sujata Bhatt was born in Ahmedabad, India in 1956, and spent her early
years in Pune. She has translated Gujarati poetry into English for the
Penguin anthology of Contemporary Indian Women Poets. Carcanet have published
her three collections: Brunizem (1988) received the Commonwealth
Poetry Prize (Asia) and the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award; Monkey Shadows
(1991) received a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. The Stinking Rose
was published in 1995. She received a Cholmondely Award in 1991. (source)
(another bio)
Sujata Bhatt has a poem in Brunizem (Carcanet, Manchester,
1988) called "Search For My Tongue"
that deals with the themes of exile (in her
case, multiple exile, from India to Connecticut, and from
the US to Germany, where she now lives), and
the difficulty of writing in a language not one's own.
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