Painting the Australian Landscape with a South-Asian Brush: An Interview with Roanna Gonsalves

Royo-Grasa, P. (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Resumen: Roanna Gonsalves is an Indian Australian writer based in Sydney, author of the high- ly-praised short fiction collection The Permanent Resident (2016) – also recently published the title Sunita De Souza Goes to Sydney: And Other Stories (2018), in which she masterfully fills the contemporary Australian literary landscape with the hardly noticed experiences of Indian immigrant women living in Australia. Gonsalves was born in Mumbai and moved to Sydney in 1998. She has been the recipient of various awards concerning both her academic and writing career: the 2018 NSW Premier’s Literary Award Multicultural Prize, the 2017 Australia Council Literature Board Grant, the 2013 Australian Prime Minister’s Australia Asia Endeavour Postgraduate (Outgoing) Award, and the 2011 Australian Writers Guild Award (with colleagues), Best Script, Community and Youth Theatre. She is co-founder and co-editor of Southern Crossings . Her publications in the prestigious journals and magazines Peril, Meanjin, Southerly, Overland, and The Conversation, together with her participation in multiple writers’ festivals, conferences and teaching of several creative writing workshops in Australian universities and schools, clearly demonstrate Gonsalves’ versatility and social commitment...

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.17456/SIMPLE-119

Año: 2018

Publicado en: SIMPLEGADI 16, 18 (2018), 283-293
ISSN: 1824-5226

Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/H03-17R
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO-FEDER/FFI2017-84258-P
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/UZ/JIUZ-2017-HUM-02

Tipo y forma: Article (Published version)

Área (Departamento): Área Filología Inglesa (Dpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema.)