Career
Over the years she has worked as a poetry editor and curator, and as a journalist on literature, classical dance and theatre. Arundhathi Subramaniam is the author of three books of poems: most recently Where I Live: New & Selected Poems Bloodaxe, United Kingdom. As editor, she has worked on a Penguin anthology of essays on sacred journeys in the country (Pilgrim’s India), and a Sahitya Akademi anthology of Post-Independence Indian Poetry in English (Another Country). She has co-edited a Penguin anthology of contemporary Indian love poems in English (Confronting Love).
As a poet, she has been invited to literary conferences and festivals in various parts of India, as well as in the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Holland, Turkey, China, West Africa and Israel, and her work has been translated into several languages, including Hindi, Tamil, Italian and Spanish.
In 2004, she was invited to edit the Indian domain of the Poetry International Web, which grew into a significant web journal of contemporary Indian poetry. Her poetry has been published in various international journals and anthologies, including Reasons for Belonging: Fourteen Contemporary Poets (Penguin India).
Sixty Indian Poets (Penguin India), Both Sides of the Sky (National Book Trust, India), We Speak in Changing Languages (Sahitya Akademi), Fulcrum Number 4: An Annual of Poetry and Aesthetics (Fulcrum Poetry Press, United States), The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets (Bloodaxe, United Kingdom), The Dance of the Peacock: An Anthology of English Poetry from India, featuring 151 Indian English poets, edited by Vivekanand Jha and published by Hidden Brook Press, Canada. and Atlas: New Writing (Crossword/ Aark Arts). Arundhathi has worked at the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai, for several years, leading a discussion-based inter-arts forum named Chauraha.
She has also been Head of Indian Classical Dance at the NCPA. She has written on literature, classical dance, theatre and culture for various newspapers (including The Times of India, The Hindu, The Indian Express, among others) since 1989.
She has also been columnist on culture and literature for Time Out, Mumbai, The Indian Express and New Woman. The prize was announced as part of ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival.
