Chitra Ramaswamy

Chitra Ramaswamy is a journalist and author from London. Her latest book, Homelands: The History of a Friendship, is a work of creative non-fiction exploring her friendship with a 98-year-old German Jewish refugee called Henry Wuga. It won the Saltire Non-Fiction Book of the Year and was included in The Guardian’s top memoirs and biographies of 2022. Her first book, Expecting: The Inner Life of Pregnancy, published in April 2016, won the Saltire First Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Polari Prize. She has contributed essays to Antlers of Water, Nasty Women, The Freedom Papers, The Bi-ble and Message from the Skies, and recently completed a commission from the Alasdair Gray Archive. She is the restaurant critic for The Times Scotland, a features writer and TV critic for The Guardian, and broadcasts for BBC radio. She lives in Edinburgh with her partner, two children and rescue dog.