Minoli Salgado
{{Short description|Sri Lankan author}}
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| birth_place = Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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| occupation = Writer and academic
| nationality = Sri Lankan writer
| alma_mater = University of Sussex (BA);
University of Manchester (PGCE);
University of Warwick (MA, PhD)
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| notable_works =A Little Dust on the Eyes
| 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.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.wasafiri.org/person/minoli-salgado/|title=People {{!}} Minoli Salgado|magazine=Wasafiri|access-date=31 August 2021}} 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
Born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Minoli Salgado was brought up in Sri Lanka, South East Asia and England,{{cite web|url=https://www.peepaltreepress.com/authors/minoli-salgado|title=Minoli Salgado|publisher=Peepal Tree Press|access-date=31 August 2021}} attending schools in Penang Hill, Colombo, and North Devon, before going on to university studies in English Literature.{{cite web|url=https://minolisalgado.com/about/|title=About|website=Minoli Salgado website|access-date=31 August 2021}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p10687-minoli-salgado/about|title=Prof Minoli Salgado|publisher=University of Sussex|access-date=31 August 2021}} In 2020, she joined Manchester Metropolitan University as Professor of International Writing,{{cite web|url=https://www.manchesterwritingschool.co.uk/writers/minoli-salgado|title=Minoli Salgado, Professor of International Writing|website=Manchester Writing School|publisher=Manchester Metropolitan University|access-date=31 August 2021}} and she is founding Director of the Centre for Migration and Postcolonial Studies (MAPS).
Her 2006 book, Writing Sri Lanka: Literature, Resistance and the Politics of Place, is considered an influential study of Sri Lankan literature in English.{{cite web|url=https://www.sundaytimes.lk/151108/plus/returning-again-and-again-to-a-familiar-landscape-170590.html|title=Returning again and again to a familiar landscape|first=Smriti|last=Daniel|work=The Sunday Times|location=Sri Lanka|date=8 November 2015|access-date=31 August 2021}} The first major study of Sri Lankan literature in English, it was researched by Salgado supported by a Leverhulme Fellowship and AHRC Research Grant.{{cite web|url=https://minolisalgado.com/scholarly-work/|title=Scholarly Work|website=Minoli Salgado website|access-date=31 August 2021}}
In 2012, her debut novel A Little Dust on the Eyes won the inaugural SI Leeds Literary Prize,{{cite web|url=http://www.commonwealthwriters.org/blog-si-literaryprize/|title=Must Be Heard|website=Commonwealth Writers|date=9 October 2014|access-date=31 August 2021}}{{cite web|url=https://the-latest.com/writer-eyes-book-deal-after-winning-top-prize|title=Writer eyes book deal after winning top prize|website=The-Latest.com|date=10 October 2012}} and in 2014 was published by Peepal Tree Press, being launched that year at the Southbank Centre as part of the London Literature Festival.{{cite web|url=https://minolisalgado.com/novel/|title=A Little Dust on the Eyes|website=Minoli Salgado website|access-date=31 August 2021}} The novel was also longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/longlist-revealed-2016-dsc-prize-south-asian-literature-314768|title=Sharma, Mukherjee and Salgado on DSC South Asian Literature longlist|magazine=The Bookseller|first=Katherine|last=Cowdrey|date=19 October 2015|access-date=31 August 2021}}{{cite web|url=https://scroll.in/article/763251/a-readers-guide-to-the-11-books-on-the-dsc-prize-for-south-asian-literature-longlist|title=A reader's guide to the 11 books on the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature longlist|website=Scroll.in|first=Arunima|last=Mazumdar|date=18 October 2015|access-date=31 August 2021}}
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
- Writing Sri Lanka: Literature, Resistance and the Politics of Place (Routledge, 2007, {{ISBN|9780415364188}})
- A Little Dust on the Eyes – novel (Peepal Tree Press, 2014, {{ISBN|9781845232405}})
- Broken Jaw – short stories (London: The 87 Press, 2019, {{ISBN|9781916477445}})
- Twelve Cries from Home: In Search of Sri Lanka's Disappeared - non-fiction (Repeater Books, 2022, {{ISBN|9781914420054}})
References
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Further reading
- 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
- [https://minolisalgado.com/ Official website]
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Category:21st-century British women writers
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