Personal correspondence and review articles, 1970-96

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Series 1

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This series comprises photocopies or transcriptions of letters and articles expressing personal and public responses to Gooneratne's published works including books of poetry Word, bird, motif (1971), The lizard's cry and other poems (1972), 6000 ft death dive (1981); anthologies edited by Gooneratne and published by Heinemann Educational Books in 1979; a critical work, Silence, exile and cunning : the fiction of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1983); her family history Relative merits : a personal memoir of the Bandaranaike family of Sri Lanka (1986) and novels A change of skies (1991) and The pleasures of conquest (1996).

Correspondents include Shelagh Anghie, Marian Abeysuriya, Muriel C. Bradbrook, Ken L. Goodwin, Lakshmie de Silva, Ellen Dissanayake, Patrick Fernando and Judith Rodriguez. Also included are two articles on Gooneratne's poetry, by H. W. Piper and by Siromi Fernando and Ryhana Raheem respectively, together with reviews published in various countries including Australia, Sri Lanka, India, United Kingdom and United States. Also included are two photographic portraits of Gooneratne taken in 1959 and 1991.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Gooneratne donated her papers to the National Library of Australia on 23 December 1996 under the Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme.

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