| dbo:abstract | - Yasmine Gooneratne (born 1935) is a Sri Lankan poet, short story writer, university professor and essayist. She is recognised in Sri Lanka, Australia and throughout Europe and the U.S.A., due to her substantial creative and critical publications in the field of English and post-colonial literature. Currently, she resides in Sri Lanka. Gooneratne was educated at the University of Ceylon and Cambridge University. She is an Emeritus Professor, having held a personal chair in English as a Professor at Macquarie University which is situated in Sydney, New South Wales. Yasmine Gooneratne was awarded Australia’s highest national honour, The Order Of Australia, in 1990, for her services to Education and Literature. She was also awarded the Raja Rao Award in 2001, for ‘Outstanding Contribution To The Literature and Culture Of The South Asian Diaspora.’ This award was presented by the Samvad India Foundation and Jawarharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She was also honoured with Sri Lanka’s Sahithyarathna Award for a lifetime’s achievement in Literature at The State Literary Festival in 2008. This Award is described as ‘The Highest Honour bestowed by the State of Sri Lanka’, and was conferred on Yasmine Gooneratne ‘For Her Immense Contribution To The Field Of English Literature.’ Yasmine Gooneratne has been a Patron of Sri Lanka’s premier literary festival, The Galle Literary Festival - later named ‘The Fairway Galle Literary Festival’ - from its inception. (en)
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| dbp:occupation | - university professor, literary critic, editor, poet, essayist, short story writer, novelist and educator (en)
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| rdfs:comment | - Yasmine Gooneratne (born 1935) is a Sri Lankan poet, short story writer, university professor and essayist. She is recognised in Sri Lanka, Australia and throughout Europe and the U.S.A., due to her substantial creative and critical publications in the field of English and post-colonial literature. Currently, she resides in Sri Lanka. Gooneratne was educated at the University of Ceylon and Cambridge University. She is an Emeritus Professor, having held a personal chair in English as a Professor at Macquarie University which is situated in Sydney, New South Wales. (en)
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