An open letter to UWA from a former international student and UWAP author Roanna Gonsalves12/11/2019
Dear Mr. Tayyeb Shah, I came to Australia as an international student from Mumbai, India in 1998. One reason that attracted me to Australian institutions of higher education was their commitment to creativity, to intellectual rigour and to encouraging a plurality of ideas. I wrote a book of short stories called The Permanent Resident, mainly to chronicle the lives of Indians in Australia, including the lives of international students. This book is published by UWAP. It has since won a NSW Premier’s Literary Award 2018 (Multicultural), been very well-reviewed in Australia and India, is on the syllabi of a number of universities and on several “must-read” booklists. This would not have happened without UWAP, particularly Terri-ann White, championing my book. Since its publication, I have had innumerable conversations with readers of my book who are international students from India and China, as well as potential international students considering Australia as a study and work destination. These people are hungry for stories about what it might be like to live in Australia, to experience the country, to get a true sense of life as an outsider here, a true sense that is difficult to get from news media and advertisements. More... *** Support UWAP by signing the petition at Change.org Comments are closed.
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