Reviews & Interviews

REVIEWS OF The Permanent Resident / Sunita De Souza Goes To Sydney

• Book Review: Sunita De Souza Goes To Sydney, review by Michelle D’costa in kitaab.org, 27 November, 2018.
• Sunita De Souza Goes To Sydney And Other Stories by Roanna Gonsalves – Review, review by Anupama Chandra in The Free Press Journal, India, 28 October 2018.
• Reality can be harsh, review in The Telegraph, India, 24 August 2018
• Tales of the modern migrant, review by Tim Kroenert, Eureka Street, 10 July 2018
• Roanna Gonsalves: The Permanent Resident, book review by Augusto Pinto, Interdisciplinary Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies, Vol 7, July 2018
• An interview with Roanna Gonsalves, by Jaya Bhattacharji Rose, 3 July 2018

• ‘Sunita De Souza Goes to Sydney’ review: on foreign shores, with peeling skin: by Manu S. Pillai, The Hindu, June 9, 2018

• Interrogating the diaspora, a review by Jessica Abramovic and Jen Webb, Text, 22.1, April 2018.

• All In That Space: On Asian Australian Writers by Christine Yunn-Yu Sun, Sydney Review of Books, 27 April, 2018
• A Review of The Permanent Resident by Roanna Gonsalves by Jen Bowden, Westerly, 62.2, December 2017
• The State of Australian Reality: Roanna Gonsalves’ The Permanent Resident and Anthony Macris’ Inexperience and other stories by David Thomas Henry Wright, Verity La, 19 September 2017
• The Permanent Resident – Roanna Gonsalves, by Cass Moriarty, cassmoriarty.com, Aug 9, 2017
• The Permanent Resident: A Review, by Iris C. F. Gomes, Prutha, July 2017
• Roanna Gonsalves’ The Permanent Resident, review by Eugen Bacon, Bukker Tillibul, May 2017
• Probing Modes of Stability and Identity in The Permanent Resident, review by Sarah Biggerstaff, Her Canberra, 3 May 2017.
• Book Review: The Permanent Resident, review by Carol Andrade, The Examiner, April 22-28, 2017
• Sara Savage Reviews The Permanent Resident by Roanna Gonsalves, review by Sara Savage, Australian Book Review, April 2017, no. 390.
• How Australian is Australian Enough?’, review by Yen-Rong Wong, The Lifted Brow, 24 March 2017
• New Beginnings, review by Kunal Ray, Biblio: A Review of Books, Jan-March 2017
• The Permanent Resident: Roanna Gonsalves, review by Chetna Prakash, The Big Smoke, 11 February 2017
• The Permanent Resident: Roanna Gonsalves, review by Angus Dalton, Good Reading Magazine, February 2017
• Roanna Gonsalves The Permanent Resident, review by Suzanne Marks, The Newtown Review of Books, 31 January, 2017
• Gonsalves’ Permanent Resident: Indian migrant experience explored, Review by Meeta Chatterjee, The Australian, 21 January 2017
• The Permanent Resident: Review, review by Savia Viegas in Free Press Journal, 8 Jan 2017
• Immigrant fiction about Indians moves to Australia, and about time, too, review by Anu Kumar, Scroll.in, 24 December 2016
• Reviews on goodreads.com
• ‘What it really means to be a migrant’, review by Salma Shah, Indian Link, 18 November 2016
• ‘The Permanent Resident by Roanna Gonsalves‘, review by Annie Condon, Readings, 24 October 2016.
• The Permanent Resident review by Craig Kirchner, Abbey’s Bookshop, October 2016

SCHOLARSHIP on The Permanent Resident / Sunita De Souza Goes To Sydney

• ‘Precarity, Violence and the Intersection of Race, Class and Gender in Roanna Gonsalves’ The Permanent Resident’, by Anne Brewster, Australian Humanities Review, Issue 64, May 2019. Read here.
• ‘Painting the Australian landscape with a South Asian brush’,  interview by Pilar Royo-Grasa, published in Le Simplegadi, XVI, 18: 283-293, Nov 29, 2018. Read here.

INTERVIEWS  / MEDIA (about The Permanent Resident / Sunita De Souza Goes To Sydney, and other things) 

• Interview about The Permanent Resident, with Emma Sleath, ABC Local Radio, Alice Springs, 13 May 2019
• Review of ‘Know Your Place: The politics of identity’ at the Sydney Writers’ Festival, a conversation between Fatima Bhutto, Elaine Castillo, and Roanna Gonsalves, by Rhea Cai, 4 May 2019
• Writers on writing: Interview with Roanna Gonsalves
• Interview with Roanna Gonsalves : Multicultural NSW
• Spotlight on: Roanna Gonsalves, interview by Alexander Wells, Writing NSW, 30 Nov 2018
• Short Stories on The Bookshelf, ABC Radio National, with Kate Evans, Michael Dulaney, Brett Evans, and Roanna Gonsalves, 7 September, 2018
• Rooted in New Soil: Article by Elizabeth Thomas in The Mumbai Age. and Deccan Chronicle publications across India.
• An interview with Roanna Gonsalves by the Australian Short Story Festival, 29 August 2018
• ON ABC TV: Continuing the Q&A conversation with Tracey Holmes and author Roanna Gonsalves. Q&A Extra is live on Facebook and ABC News Radio straight after each program.
• Kate Evans from Radio National, Australia, talks to the BBC about Australian writers to Watch. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b094s2sv
• ‘The Permanent Resident’, radio interview with Simon Smart and Natasha Moore, Centre for Public Christianity, Sydney, 15 June 2017 https://publicchristianity.org/library/the-permanent-resident
• Sense of Place: Roanna Gonsalves on Goa, in conversation with Jonathan Green on ABC RN Blueprint for Living, 10 June, 2017.
• Cover story on Indian Link: Selfie Queen of the literary type,, interview by the Editor, Rajni Anand Luthra, 9 June 2017.
• The Permanent Resident author Roanna Gonsalves makes the case for selfies, by Melanie Kembrey, 28 May, 2017.
• Roanna Gonsalves on Literature as Selfie, USYD at Sydney Writers’ Festival, by Eden Faithfull, 26 May 2017.
• Roanna Gonsalves on the Sydney Writers’ Festival in Port Macquarie, by Liz Langdale, 11 May 2017.
• Migrant identities, gender, and writing – Roanna Gonsalves, interview by Feminartsy, 3 May 2017.
• Untwisting your own tongue: An interview with Roanna Gonsalves, interviewed by  Stephen Samuel, Verity La, 14 March 2017.
• The Permanent Resident in the Grandmotherland, edited transcript of launch speech at the Goa Arts & Literature Festival, featured by Australian Women Writers Challenge, 25 February 2017.
•  Interview with Roanna Gonsalves, interview by Selma Carvalho, Joao Roque Literary Journal, 8 February 2017.
• Interview with Australian author Roanna Gonsalves, interview wth Joy Hopwood, The Joy House, 7 January 2017.
• Belonging is contextual, interview with Christine Machado, The Goan, 11 December 2016.
• Australia needs more Goan voices, The Times of India, Goa, 11 December 2016.
• A brown woman in a ‘white first world’, interview with Janice Rodrigues, Navhind Times, Goa, India, 10 December 2016.
• Strangers in a strange land, The Goan Life, 10 December 2016.
• Interview with Roanna Gonsalves, interview by Kate Evans, Books Plus and Books & Arts, ABC Radio National, 4 December 2016.
• Interview with Roanna Gonsalves, interview by Jacqueline Maley, Sunday Afternoon, ABC Radio National, 4 December 2016.
• Interview with Roanna Gonsalves, interview by Kumud Merani, SBS Hindi and English Radio, 18 November 2017.
• ‘I’m not a very good migrant’, interview about The Permanent Resident with Kumud Merani, SBS, 18 November, 2016.
• Podcast interview about The Permanent Resident with Kumud Merani, SBS Hindi, 16 November, 2016
• Panel guest/discussant on ABC Radio National’s Books and Arts Daily Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, the finale of the year-long ‘Subcontinent Book Club’ with Vijay Mishra, Paul Sharrad, and host Michael Cathcart on the national broadcaster, first broadcast live 10 am, Thu Dec 17, 2015
• Interview about contemporary Indian literature and a preview of the four-part series On the tip of a billion tongues, with host Michael Cathcart on Books and Arts Daily, Monday 25 Nov, 2015
• Interview about migration in relation to The Patron Saint of Excess Baggage in Joyful Strains:Making Australia Home, with Malla Nunn, on ABC Television, ABC News 24 Breakfast, hosted by Miriam Corowa and Richard Davies on Australia Day, January 26, 2013
• Interview on receiving one of the Australian Prime Minister’s Australia Asia Endeavour Awards 2013, Indian Link, Jan 2013, http://www.indianlink.com.au/front-page/aus-asia-award-takes-writer-to-india/
• Interview about The Patron Saint of Excess Baggage in Joyful Strains:Making Australia Home, with Tsu-Ming Teo, on Eastside FM Radio, hosted by Sylvia Rosenblum, Feb 2013,  http://eastsidefm.org/2013/02/hsu-ming-teo-and-roanna-gonsalves-talked-to-sylvia-rosenblum-on-arts-wednesday-6-february-2013-about-becoming-australian/
• Interview about migration and home, in relation to The Patron Saint of Excess Baggage in Joyful Strains:Making Australia Home, with Michelle Aung Thin and Mark Dapin, on Life Matters, ABC Radio National, hosted by Natasha Mitchell, Jan 2013,  http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/lifematters/the-migrant-experience/4482952
• Interview about Indian students, writing and migration after AWG Award for Yet to Ascertain the Nature of the Crime, Canterbury Bankstown Express, Sep 2011,  http://express.whereilive.com.au/news/story/roanna-gonsalves-script-nominated-for-australian-writers-guild-award/
• Interview about Australian Writers Guild Award, Indian Link, September 2011
• Interview about Indian students in Sydney, in relation to the play Yet to Ascertain the Nature of the Crime, Melbourne Workers Theatre, on Life Matters, ABC Radio National, hosted by Richard Aedy, Nov 2010 http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/lifematters/roanna-gonsalves/2959714
• Article about Australian Festival of Travel Writing, Indian Link, Oct 2010, http://www.indianlink.com.au/melbourne-news/indian-influence-at-writer%E2%80%99s-festival/