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 uga. 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.