Chitra Ramaswamy

Chitra Ramaswamy is a British journalist of South Asian descent. Her books are Homelands: The History of a Friendship, published by Canongate Books, and Expecting: The Inner Life of Pregnancy, published by Saraband.

Chitra Ramaswamy
Ramaswamy at the 2024 St. Andrew's Book Festival
Born	1979 (age 45–46)[1]
Nationality	British
Alma mater	University of Glasgow
Occupation	Journalist

Ramaswamy is currently a restaurant critic in Scotland for the Alba supplement in the Scottish edition of The Sunday Times.^[2] She was one of the Guardian's TV reviewers.^[3]

Biography

Ramaswamy grew up in Richmond, London.^[4] She has a BA in English Literature from University of Glasgow.^[5] She is bisexual^[6] and lives in Edinburgh, Scotland with her partner Claire and two children.^[7]

Awards and honours

In 2016, Ramaswamy won a Scottish first book award: Saltire Society Literary Awards' First Book of the Year Award.^[8] and was shortlisted for the Polari Prize^[9] In 2022, Homelands: The History of a Friendship was listed by The Guardian as one of its memoirs of 2022.^[10] and the Saltire Society Non-Fiction Book of the Year.^[11]

Books

• Expecting: The Inner Life of Pregnancy (2016, Saraband, ISBN 978-1-9101-9221-4)
• Homelands: The History of a Friendship (2022, Canongate Books, ISBN 978-1-8388-5266-5)