Yasmine Gooneratne
McQuarie University, Australia
Education: University of Ceylon, Peradeniya and Cambridge University
Degrees: DLitt. (Macquarie) PhD (Cambridge) BA Hons. (Ceylon)
Honours and Awards: Order of Australia, Raja Rao Award, Marjorie Barnard Literary Award, Pettah library Prize, etc.
Published Books include: Jane Austen; Alexander Pope; Silence, Exile and Cunning: The Fiction of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala; Relative Merits: A Personal Memoir of the Bandaranaike Family of Sri Lanka; Celebrating Sri Lankan Women's English Writing; A Change of Skies (novel); The Plesures of Conquest (novel); Masterpiece & Other Stories (short stories); This Inscrutable Englishman: Sir John D'Oyly (co-authored biography); Celebrations and Departures (poetry); Diverse Inheritance (essays)