Priya Sarukkai Chabria

Priya Sarukkai Chabria is an Indian poet, translator and novelist writing in English, and a curator. She was awarded for Outstanding Contribution to Literature by the Indian government.

Writing about Sarukkai Chabria's work, the Indian poetry scholar, Bruce King, said: "...she is a highly competent writer aware of form, of poetic conventions in many different language traditions, with a feeling for cadence, lineation, image, compression and sound. She ranges through an impressive variety of themes and manners". American poet Dennis Nurkse, a Literature Awardee from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Guggenheim Fellowship, said Sarukkai Chabria possesses an "ability to handle historical and mythic material in ways that make them completely new".