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Suneeta Peres da Costa
Suneeta Peres da Costa was born in Sydney, Australia, to parents of Goan origin. She writes fiction, nonfiction, plays and poetry and has worked with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Sydney Review of Books and the National Gallery of Victoria, among others. Her debut novel, Homework, was published internationally by Bloomsbury in 1999 and her literary honors include a Fulbright Scholarship, the Australia Council for the Arts BR Whiting Residency, Rome, and, recently, an Asialink Arts Creative Exchange to the Australian and New Zealand Studies Centre at Himachal Pradesh University, India. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College, New York.
Titles by Suneeta Peres da Costa
Suneeta Peres da Costa
1960s Angola. A Goan immigrant family finds itself caught between their complicity in Portuguese rule and their own outsider status in the period leading up to independence. Looking back on her childhood, the narrator of Suneeta Peres da Costa’s novel captures with intense lyricism the difficult relationship between her and her mother, and the ways in which their intimate world is shaken by domestic violence, the legacies of slavery, and the end of empire. Her story unfolds into a growing awareness of the lies of colonialism and the political ruptures that ultimately lead to their exile.