Roanna Gonsalves’ book The Permanent Resident won the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Multicultural Prize 2018. Her writing has been compared to the work of Alice Munro and Jhumpa Lahiri. Her ABC RN radio series, On the tip of a billion tongues, is a portrayal of contemporary India through its multilingual writers. Roanna is a recipient of the Prime Minister’s Australia Asia Endeavour Award.

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