About Carole Satyamurti’s translationMahabharataThe Golden Compass Carol Satyamurti was a poet and social scientist. She published six collections of poetry, the most recent of which is Countdown . Her work has been widely anthologized and won numerous awards, including first prize in the National Poetry Competition, 1986, and a Cholmondeley Award in 2000. Mahabharata: A Modern Retelling , of which this volume is an abridgment, won the inaugural Roehampton Poetry Prize in 2015.