Chandani Lokuge

Chandani Lokuge or Lokugé (born 1952) is a Sri Lankan-born novelist and literary editor, now living in Australia.

Early life and education

Lokuge was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka in 1952. She was educated at St Bridget's Convent in Columbo, before completing a BA and MA at the University of Kelaniya. Having won a Commonwealth Scholarship she moved to Australia in 1987 to undertake a PhD at Flinders University, Adelaide, graduating in 1993.

Career

During her PhD studies, Lokuge began writing short stories which were published in The CRNLE Reviews Journal. In 1992 she published her first book, a collection of short stories.

Lokuge worked as a tutor and lecturer at Flinders University then moved to Melbourne in 2001 to join Monash University, initially as a lecturer, rising to Director of the Centre for Postcolonial Writing. During that time she spent time as the Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack Visiting Chair in Australian Studies at the Free University of Berlin.

Works

Novels and short stories

• Lokugé, Chandani (1992). Moth and other stories. Sydney: Dangaroo Press. ISBN 978-1-871049-13-8.
• —— (2000). If the moon smiled. New Delhi : New York, NY: Penguin Books ; Penguin Putnam Inc. ISBN 978-0-14-028472-0.
• —— (2003). Turtle nest. Camberwell, Vic: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-029916-8.
• —— (2011). Softly, as I leave you. North Melbourne, Vic: Arcadia. ISBN 978-1-921875-41-0.
• —— (2019). My Van Gogh. North Melbourne, Vic: Arcadia. ISBN 978-1-925984-17-0.

Edited publications

• Lokugé, Chandani; Probyn, Clive, eds. (2003). "Home and Away" issue, New Literatures Review, No. 40, Winter 2003.
• Wilson, Janet; Lokugé, Chandani, eds. (2018). Mediating literary borders: Asian Australian writing. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138-57081-8.