Chitra Ramaswamy

Chitra Ramaswamy is a London 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.

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

Biography
Ramaswamy grew up in Richmond, London. She has a BA in English Literature from University of Glasgow. She is bisexual and lives in Edinburgh, Scotland with her partner Claire and two children.

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

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)