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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