Suneeta Peres da Costa
Suneeta Peres Da Costa | |
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| Born | 1976 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation | author and playwright |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Notable works | Homework (1999) |
Suneeta Peres Da Costa (born 1976) is an award-winning Australian author and playwright. She is best known for her 1999 autobiographical novel Homework.[1]
Peres Da Costa was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She is a graduate of the University of Technology (Bachelor of Arts, Communication) and was a Fulbright Scholar at Sarah Lawrence College, New York, receiving a Master of Fine Arts in Writing.[2] She received the Philip Parsons Young Playwrights Award (1996) and the Ian Reed Foundation Prize for Radio Drama (1998). Her radio plays include Watermark, Angelina's Song, Children See Everything, Fire and The Art of Straying for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.[3]
References
- ^ Homework, Peres Da Costa, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2001 http://www.bloomsbury.com/au/homework-9780747547280/
- ^ Author record, Suneeta Peres Da Costa, AustLit (http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A8634), 2002-
- ^ Australian Plays https://australianplays.org/playwright/ASC-260