Chandani Lokuge
Chandani Lokuge was born and educated in Colombo, Sri Lanka and came to Australia in 1987 on a Commonwealth Scholarship to complete her PhD at Flinders University. She currently teaches at Monash University, Victoria, where she is the Director of the Centre for Postcolonial Writing. She has a book of critically acclaimed short stories, Moth and Other Stories and has previously been published by Penguin with her contribution to The Penguin Book of Modern Sri Lankan Stories. Chandani's first novel If the Moon Smiled tells the story of Manthri, a young women in Sri Lankan who marvels at the promise of life and yearns for a future of fulfilled dreams. The novel was shortlisted for the 2001 NSW Premiers Prize for Best Novel.
Turtle Nest. Penguin, 2003.
If the Moon Smiled. Penguin, 2000.
Moth and Other Stories. Dangaroo Press, 1992.
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