Priya Sarukkai Chabria

Priya Sarukkai Chabria is an Indian poet and novelist writing in English[1] and the author of ″Not Springtime Yet″ (Harper Collins, India) and ″Andal: The Autobiography of a Goddess″ (Zubaan Books, India). She is the editor of Poetry at Sangam.[2][3]

Priya Sarukkai Chabria
OccupationAuthor, poet, novelist, translator
NationalityIndian
CitizenshipIndian
Notable worksNot Springtime Yet, Andal: The Autobiography of a Goddess
Notable awardsFellowship from the Indian Government, Muse India Translation award
Website
priyawriting.com

Life and career

Chabria received a Senior Fellowship to Outstanding Artists for Literature from the Government of India for exploring the validity of the classical rasa theory of aesthetics in contemporary writing in English. She along with Ravi Shankar translated the songs of 8th century Tamil poet Aandaal in her book Andal: The Autobiography of A Goddess. The book won the 2017 Muse India translation award at the Hyderabad Literary Festival.[4][5]

Books

Poetry
  • Sarukkai-Chabria, Priya (2008). Not springtime yet: poems. New Delhi: HarperCollins Publishers India, a joint venture with the India Today Group. ISBN 9788172237714.
  • Dialogue and Other Poems, Sahitya Akademi, 2005

Novels
  • Sarukkai-Chabria, Priya (2008). Generation 14. New Delhi: Penguin Books. ISBN 9788189884062.

Translations
  • Āṇṭāḷ; Sarukkai-Chabria, Priya; Shankar, Ravi (2015). The autobiography of a goddess. ISBN 9789384757670.
gollark: That seems somewhat arbitrary.
gollark: No, I mean by the government, which probably has to go to lots of effort to run such a system and define what "food" is.
gollark: So would just giving people money to spend on food. Less overhead with working out what counts as acceptable food too probably.
gollark: Clean water *from taps*? As opposed to by going to a shop or something.
gollark: Technically I just "need" 1500 calories in some ratio of nutrients, but I like to have somewhat more than this and also food I like, so "universal basic food" would be bad.

References
  1. "Legend of the clone". The Hindu. 1 April 2008. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 29 September 2018.
  2. "To The Land of My Lord". The Indian Express. 8 October 2016. Retrieved 29 September 2018.
  3. "PRIYA SARUKKAI CHABRIA | Poetry at Sangam". poetry.sangamhouse.org. Retrieved 29 September 2018.
  4. "Muse India Prize Panel on Translations". Hyderabad Literary Festival 2019. Retrieved 29 September 2018.
  5. "Three new attractions at HLF 2018". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 29 September 2018.
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