Suneeta Peres da Costa

Suneeta Peres da Costa lives on unceded Gadigal land. Her most recent book, Saudade (Giramondo, 2018; Transit Books, 2019), focuses on the legacies of Portuguese colonialism and the Goan diaspora in pre-Independence Angola. It was shortlisted for the 2019 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, the 2020 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature and a finalist in the 2020 Tournament of Books (USA). Her literary honours include a Fulbright Scholarship, the Australia Council for the Arts BR Whiting Residency, Rome, and an Asialink Arts Creative Exchange to North India.

Works By Suneeta Peres da Costa

The Ten Thousand Things
I am supposed to be writing this essay, ostensibly on technology, but the rooms of the house become a labyrinth, a game of snakes and ladders, a ten thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle in which I am apt to forget my task or purpose.
2 May. 2021
Beyond the ‘Bamboo Ceiling’
Changing what one sees is particularly relevant in the arts where the representation of reality is core business. Unconscious bias in statements from decision-makers to which I have been both privy and at the receiving end that – to take just a fe...
26 Mar. 2020
A Home in Ananda and the World
In these Annandale terraces we share more than walls; we share the sight of the jacaranda flowering in November and the yellow wattle flowering in July. Between the roar of planes on the flight path and the speedy SUVs, we hear the warbling and sh...
26 Oct. 2016
Wide Sargasso Sea, fifty years on
‘Re-reading Wide Sargasso Sea now in this, the fiftieth anniversary year of its first publication in 1966, I can’t help feeling that the novel remains just as groundbreaking and heartbreaking. Perhaps we are finally catching up with Jean Rhys and...
8 Mar. 2016

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Suneeta Peres da Costa

Works By Suneeta Peres da Costa

The Ten Thousand Things

Beyond the ‘Bamboo Ceiling’

A Home in Ananda and the World

Wide Sargasso Sea, fifty years on