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Sujata Bhatt (born
6 May 1956) is an
Indian
poet, a
native speaker of
Gujarati. She has written many poems, most prominent of which is the
English poem "Search for My Tongue". This poem is one in a section of "Poems from Different Cultures" in an anthology that's compulsory study for many fourteen to sixteen-year-olds in the United Kingdom.
Bhatt was born in
Ahmedabad, and brought up in
Pune until 1968, when she emigrated to the
United States with her family. She has an
MFA from the
University of Iowa, and for a time was writer-in-residence at the
University of Victoria,
Canada. More recently she was a visiting fellow at
Dickinson College,
Pennsylvania. She currently works as a freelance writer and has translated Gujarati poetry into English for the
Penguin Anthology of Contemporary Indian Women Poets. Her poems have appeared in various journals in the
United Kingdom,
Ireland, the United States, and Canada, and have been widely anthologised, as well as being broadcast on British, German, and Dutch radio. Bhatt now lives in
Bremen,
Germany with her husband, German writer
Michael Augustin, and daughter.
Many of her poems have
love and
violence as themes, and explore issues such as
racism and the interaction between
Asian,
European, and
North American culture. The subject matter of her poetry has ranged from political strife to
eroticism.
Search for my Tongue, one of her more popular poems is currently part of the GCSE Anthology section. One of her devotees Farhan Patel quotes "She is absolutely amazing". Rizwan a current GCSE student feels that "Her poems provide an insight into the strifes and struggles faced by immigrants to actually master with their new language as well as keeping intact their mother tongue". David Mendoza-Wolfson, another GCSE student feels that "this poem gives people from cultures foreign to those of south asia an insight into not only how immigants from this area feel but immigrants from all over the world".
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