Gooneratne, Yasmine

About Yasmine Gooneratne

Emory University: Biography with focus on career plus short introduction into her work, interview excerpts and selected bibliography

Reviews

THIS INSCRUTABLE ENGLISHMAN: SIR JOHN D'OYLY, BARONET, 1774-1824

Peebles, Patrick. The Englishman Who Went Into the Hills. H-Net - Humanities & Social Sciences Online, 1999

RELATIVE MERITS:  A PERSONAL MEMOIR OF THE BANDARANAIKE FAMILY OF SRI LANKA

Kantha, Sachi Sri. Rev. of Relative Merits. sangam.org, 2002 (July 18).

MASTERPIECE & OTHER STORIES

Mukherjee, Meenakshi. Across Cultures. Ozlanka, 2003.

Interviews

Mohanty, Sachidananda. "I don't write to a programme". The Hindu, 2003 (January 5).

Writings by Yasmine Gooneratne

FICTION

• Three Story Extracts. SPAN (No. 36), 1993. - two extracts from Relative Merits: A Personal Memoir of the Bandaranaike Family of Sri Lanka (1986) and one from A Change of Skies (1991)

ESSAYS/ ARTICLES

• There was a young lady named Jane...Jane Austen Society of Australia, 1999. - article, first part dealing with history and analysis of the limerick form, second part on limerick competition at Jane Austen society, explaining criteria and commenting on numerous individual limericks

• Making Sense: Jane Austen on the Screen. Jane Austen Society of Australia, Source: Intercultural Encounters: Studies in English Literatures, 1999.

POETRY

• Migrant Prince. South Asian Women's Forum, 2001 (August 20).

• The Scribble; Touch Me Not; 5: The Courtyard; Newsletter; 6,000 ft Death Dive; Cave; Migrant Poet; Business People; Dead Poet. SPAN (No. 36), 1993. - eight poems

NON-FICTION

• Rev. of Jane Austen by Deirdre Le Faye. Jane Austen Society of Australia, 1999.

• Why a Jane Austen Society?. Jane Austen Society of Australia, 1999.

USEFUL SOURCES

Biographies:

Contemporary Writers

Dictionary of Literary Biography

Literary Reference Center

A Dictionary of Writers

Plot Summaries

 Kindlers Literatur Lexikon  

Literary Reference Center

Secondary Literature:

see Research Section

NOTE:

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