Yasmin Gooneratne

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Yasmin Gooneratne is a Sri Lankan-born literary critic, poet, and academic known for her work on postcolonial literature and South Asian writing in English.

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instanceOf essayist
literary critic
novelist
person
poet
academicDiscipline English
literary studies
awardReceived Order of Australia
Sri Lanka Sahitya Ratna
countryOfCitizenship Australia
Sri Lanka
educatedAt University of Cambridge
University of Ceylon
employer Macquarie University
ethnicGroup Sri Lankan
Sri Lankan Burgher
fieldOfWork English literature
South Asian writing in English
literary criticism
postcolonial literature
genre literary criticism
poetry
postcolonial fiction
hasWrittenOn Michael Ondaatje
Sri Lankan English-language writers
knownFor scholarship on Sri Lankan literature in English
work on South Asian writing in English
work on postcolonial literature
languageOfWorkOrName English
movement postcolonial literature
notableWork A Change of Skies
Asia’s English-Language Literatures
Mastering English Literature
Relative Merits
Relative Merits: A Personal Memoir of the Bandaranaike Family of Sri Lanka
The Pleasures of Conquest
The Sri Lankan Novel in English
The Sweet and Simple Kind
occupation literary scholar
novelist
poet
professor
university teacher
placeOfBirth Sri Lanka
positionHeld professor of English at Macquarie University
residence Australia
sexOrGender female
spouse Lyn Gooneratne

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