Carole Satyamurti

Carole Lavinia Satyamurti (or Sathyamurthy; ; 13 August 1939 – 13 August 2019) was a British poet, sociologist, and translator.

Personal life Satyamurti grew up in Kent, and lived in North America, Singapore and Uganda. She attended the University of London (BA 1960, PhD 1979), the University of Birmingham (postgraduate diploma in social work 1965), and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (MA 1967). She married T. V. Sathyamurthy, who taught politics at York University, in 1963, and they divorced in 1986; they had one daughter. She lived in London until her death on 13 August 2019, aged 80.

Career She taught at the University of East London and at the Tavistock Clinic, where her main interest was relating psychoanalytic ideas to the stories people tell about themselves, whether in formal autobiography or everyday encounters.

She was a writer in residence at the University of Sussex and the College of Charleston. She ran poetry programmes in Venice, Corfu and the National Gallery in London, with Gregory Warren Wilson.

Awards Satyamurti won many awards including: 1986 National Poetry Competition 1988 and 2008 Arts Council Writers' Award

Works "Chesil Beach", poetry pf "Lust in Translation"; "How I Altered History"; "Woman Pursued by Dragon Flees into the Desert"; "Dear Departed", poetry pf "Villanelle", Ambit, No 165 2001 "When He is Silent", Ambit, No 165 2001

Mahabharata: A Modern Retelling. W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2015.

Translations "Two Women", Toeti Heraty, Poetry Translation Centre "A Woman's Portrait 1938", Toeti Heraty, Poetry Translation Centre "Geneva in July", Toeti Heraty, Poetry Translation Centre "Jogging in Jakarta", Toeti Heraty, Poetry Translation Centre from The Mahabharata, The Poetry Society

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