Yasmin Gooneratne

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essayist literary critic novelist person poet

Yasmin Gooneratne is a Sri Lankan-born literary critic, poet, and academic known for her work on postcolonial literature and South Asian writing in English.

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Label	Occurrences
Yasmin Gooneratne canonical	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	essayist ⓘ literary critic ⓘ novelist ⓘ person ⓘ poet ⓘ
academicDiscipline	English ⓘ literary studies ⓘ
awardReceived	Order of Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ Sri Lanka Sahitya Ratna NERFINISHED ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	Australia ⓘ Sri Lanka NERFINISHED ⓘ
educatedAt	Cambridge University ⓘ surface form: University of Cambridge University of Ceylon NERFINISHED ⓘ
employer	Macquarie University NERFINISHED ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Sri Lankan NERFINISHED ⓘ Sri Lankan Burgher NERFINISHED ⓘ
fieldOfWork	English literature ⓘ South Asian writing in English ⓘ literary criticism ⓘ postcolonial literature ⓘ
genre	literary criticism ⓘ poetry ⓘ postcolonial fiction ⓘ
hasWrittenOn	Michael Ondaatje NERFINISHED ⓘ Sri Lankan English-language writers ⓘ
knownFor	scholarship on Sri Lankan literature in English ⓘ work on South Asian writing in English ⓘ work on postcolonial literature ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
movement	postcolonial literature ⓘ
notableWork	A Change of Skies NERFINISHED ⓘ Asia’s English-Language Literatures NERFINISHED ⓘ Mastering English Literature NERFINISHED ⓘ Relative Merits NERFINISHED ⓘ Relative Merits: A Personal Memoir of the Bandaranaike Family of Sri Lanka NERFINISHED ⓘ The Pleasures of Conquest NERFINISHED ⓘ The Sri Lankan Novel in English NERFINISHED ⓘ The Sweet and Simple Kind NERFINISHED ⓘ
occupation	literary scholar ⓘ novelist ⓘ poet ⓘ professor ⓘ university teacher ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Sri Lanka NERFINISHED ⓘ
positionHeld	professor of English at Macquarie University ⓘ
residence	Australia ⓘ
sexOrGender	female ⓘ
spouse	Lyn Gooneratne NERFINISHED ⓘ

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

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Subject: Yasmin Gooneratne
Description of subject: Yasmin Gooneratne is a Sri Lankan-born literary critic, poet, and academic known for her work on postcolonial literature and South Asian writing in English.

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

St. Bridget’s Convent, Colombo → hasNotableAlumna → Yasmin Gooneratne ⓘ