Minoli Salgado
Minoli Salgado | |
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| Born | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| Occupation | Writer and academic |
| Nationality | Sri Lankan writer |
| Alma mater | University of Sussex (BA); University of Manchester (PGCE); University of Warwick (MA, PhD) |
| Notable works | A Little Dust on the Eyes |
| Notable awards | SI Leeds Literary Prize |
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Minoli Salgado is a Sri Lankan writer and academic based in the United Kingdom who was born in Malaysia and educated mainly in England.[1] She has written extensively on migrant studies and diasporic literature and is the author of the critically acclaimed work Writing Sri Lanka. She also writes fiction and poetry, and her debut novel A Little Dust on the Eyes won the inaugural SI Leeds Literary Prize.
Biography
[edit | edit source]Born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Minoli Salgado was brought up in Sri Lanka, South East Asia and England,[2] attending schools in Penang Hill, Colombo, and North Devon, before going on to university studies in English Literature.[3] She earned a BA degree from the University of Sussex, PGCE from University of Manchester, and after gaining a PhD in Indo Anglian fiction from the University of Warwick she returned to the University of Sussex, where for many years she taught postcolonial literature, holding the positions of Tutorial Fellow, Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader and Professor of English.[3][4] In 2020, she joined Manchester Metropolitan University as Professor of International Writing,[5] and she is founding Director of the Centre for Migration and Postcolonial Studies (MAPS).[3]
Her 2006 book, Writing Sri Lanka: Literature, Resistance and the Politics of Place, is considered an influential study of Sri Lankan literature in English.[6] The first major study of Sri Lankan literature in English, it was researched by Salgado supported by a Leverhulme Fellowship and AHRC Research Grant.[7]
In 2012, her debut novel A Little Dust on the Eyes won the inaugural SI Leeds Literary Prize,[8][9] and in 2014 was published by Peepal Tree Press, being launched that year at the Southbank Centre as part of the London Literature Festival.[10] The novel was also longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature.[11][12]
Her collection of short stories, Broken Jaw, was shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize and longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction in 2020.
Selected bibliography
[edit | edit source]- Writing Sri Lanka: Literature, Resistance and the Politics of Place (Routledge, 2007, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).)
- A Little Dust on the Eyes – novel (Peepal Tree Press, 2014, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).)
- Broken Jaw – short stories (London: The 87 Press, 2019, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).)
- Twelve Cries from Home: In Search of Sri Lanka's Disappeared - non-fiction (Repeater Books, 2022, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).)
References
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Further reading
[edit | edit source]- Birte Heidemann, "'When the making of history was the making of silence': An Interview with Minoli Salgado", Postcolonial Text, Vol. 11, No 4 (2016).
- Liam O'Loughlin, "'A Different Way of Seeing”: An Interview with Minoli Salgado', ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, 47.4 (2016), pp. 163–173.
- Azad Ashim Sharma, "'When Words Become Dangerous': In Conversation with Minoli Salgado", Wasafiri, 99 (Autumn 2019), pp. 20–25.
External links
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