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.

Ramaswamy is currently a restaurant critic in Scotland for the Alba supplement in the Scottish edition of The Times. She was one of The Guardians TV reviewers.

Biography Ramaswamy grew up in Richmond, London. She has a BA degree in English Literature from the 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, ) Homelands: The History of a Friendship (2022, Canongate Books, )