Chandani Lokuge

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

Lokuge was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka in 1952.^[1] 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.^[1]

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.^[2]

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.^[1][3] During that time she spent time as the Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack Visiting Chair in Australian Studies at the Free University of Berlin.^[3]

• Lokugé, Chandani (1992). Moth and other stories. Sydney: Dangaroo Press.
  ISBN 978-1-871049-13-8
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• —— (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
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• —— (2011). Softly, as I leave you. North Melbourne, Vic: Arcadia.
  ISBN 978-1-921875-41-0
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• —— (2019). My Van Gogh. North Melbourne, Vic: Arcadia.
  ISBN 978-1-925984-17-0
  .

• 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
  .