Chitra Ramaswamy

Chitra Ramaswamy is an author and journalist. Her second book, Homelands: The History of a Friendship (Canongate) is a work of creative non-fiction exploring her friendship with a German Jewish refugee and Holocaust survivor called Henry Wuga. It won the Non-Fiction Book of the Year at Scotland's National Book Awards and was included in The Guardian's top memoirs and biographies of 2022. Her first book, Expecting: The Inner Life of Pregnancy (Saraband) won the Saltire First Book of the Year...See more

Chitra Ramaswamy is an author and journalist. Her second book, Homelands: The History of a Friendship (Canongate) is a work of creative non-fiction exploring her friendship with a German Jewish refugee and Holocaust survivor called Henry Wuga. It won the Non-Fiction Book of the Year at Scotland's National Book Awards and was included in The Guardian's top memoirs and biographies of 2022. Her first book, Expecting: The Inner Life of Pregnancy (Saraband) won the Saltire First Book of the Year Award, and was shortlisted for the Polari Prize and a new edition has been released in 2024. She has contributed essays to Antlers of Water, Nasty Women, The Freedom Papers, The Bi:ble, and Message From The Skies and a book of micro-essays, Rich Things , for the Alasdair Gray Archive. She writes for the Guardian , is the restaurant critic for the Times Scotland, broadcasts for BBC radio, and is currently working on her third book. She is from London and lives in Edinburgh. See less