Brunizem by Sujata Bhatt
'Brunizem' is a dark prairie soil found in Asia, Europe and North America, the three worlds of Sujata Bhatt's imagination. Born in India, her mother tongue Gujarati, Bhatt was educated in the United States and now lives in Germany. In "Brunizem", her acclaimed first collection, she explores the richness and the conflicts of moving between cultures and languages, in poems that are passionate, direct and eloquent. "Brunizem" was awarded the Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Asia) and the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award. In 1994 "Search for My Tongue" was choreographed by Daksha Sheth and performed by the UK-based South Asian Dance Youth Company in nine cities in England and Scotland, under the title "Tongues Untied".
'this is an exciting first collection, moving and invigoratingIn the optimistic confidence with which it encompasses different cultural and linguistic traditions, it is typical of much poetry now being produced by South Asian writers.' John Welch, Poetry Review, 1988
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.Sujata Bhatt works as a freelance writer and has translated Gujarati poetry into English for the Penguin Anthology of Contemporary Indian Women Poets. Her work has appeared in various British, Irish, American and Canadian journals and her poems have been widely anthologised and have been broadcast on British, German and Dutch Radio.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781857549812 |
| ISBN 10 | 1857549813 |
| Title | Brunizem |
| Author | Sujata Bhatt |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2008-01-31 |
| Number of pages | 110 |
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