Novels
The
Sandglass
Granta
Books, London 1998, (paperback 1999)
Other
Editions:
USA: New Press 1998
Riverhead Books 1999
Canada: Doubleday 1998
India: Penguin India 1998
Translations:
French: Editions Stock 1999 Retour a Ceylan
Italian: Feltrinelli (due)
German: Unionsverlag 1999 Sandglas
Portuguese: Editorial Noticias 1999 O relogio de areia
Spanish: Tusquets (2001)
Reef
Granta
Books, London 1994 (paperback 1995, 1998)
Other
Editions:
USA: New Press 1995
Riverhead Books 1996
India: Penguin India 1994
Translations:
Dutch: Nijgh & van Ditmar 1994 Rif
French: Serpent a Plumes 1995 Recifs
Norwegian: Pax 1995 Korallrev
Spanish: ECEME 1995 El senor Salgado y el pastel de amour
German: Unionsverlag 1996 Riff
Italian: Feltrinelli 1996 Barriera di coralli
Hebrew: Hakibbutz Hamedchad 1996
Czech: Paseka 2002
Chinese: I Front (due)
Heaven's
Edge
Bloomsbury
2002
Other editions:
USA/Canada: Grove Atlantic 2003
Translations:
French: Gallimard
Spanish: del Bronce
German: Bloomsbury Germany
Short
Story Collection
Monkfish
Moon
Granta
Books, London, 1992 (paperback 1993, 1998)
Other
Editions:
USA: New Press 1993
Riverhead Books 1996
India: Penguin India 1992
Translations:
Italian: Feltrinelli 1994 La luna delpesce monaco
German: Unionsverlag (due)
French: Edition Stock (due)
Contributions
in Anthologies
Sightlines,
Vintage, 2001
Banquet of the Mind, Random House 2000
The Redbeck Anthology of British South Asian Poetry, Redbeck
Press 2000
Shorts, Granta Books 1998
Nomades de les Paraules, Virus, Barcelona 1997
Nomades de las Palabras, Virus, Barcelona 1997
The Faber Book of Contemporary Stories about Childhood, 1997
Extravagant Strangers, Faber & Faber 1997
The Tiger's Garden, Serpent's Tail 1996
Different Places Different Voices, DR Denmark, 1997
New Writing 3 and 5, Minerva 1994, 1996
Border Lines, Serpent's Tail 1993
Telling Stories, BBC, 1992
Contributions
in Anthologies (children's)
Red
Sky at Night and other poems, Oxford University Press, 2000
A Trunkful of Elephants, Mammoth, 1994
Early Years Poems & Rhymes, Scholastic Publications, 1993
A Cup of Starshine, Walker Books, 1991
Magazines
& Journals (prose and poetry)
Time,
Granta, Paris Review, London Magazine, London Review of Books, The Observer,
The Guardian, Wasafari, Kunapipi, The Pen, Poetry Now, Stand Magazine,
Poetry Durham, Poetry Matters, High Life, Far East Economic Review etc.
Critical
Reviews
Quotes
from reviews can be found when you click on each title. There are also
references for reviews in magazines, journals and newspapers on each
title page.
Some general
articles on Romesh Gunesekera's writing and a selection of reviews are
listed here.
Heaven's
Edge (reviews)
1.
TLS (12/4/02)
2. Irish Times (23/3/02)
3. Scotland on Sunday (14/4/02)
4. Financial Times (20/4/02)
5. The Guardian (11/5/02)
The
Sandglass (reviews)
1. Observer 22/2/98 (Penelope Fitzgerald) UK
2. Independent on Sunday 22/2/98 (Paul Binding) UK
3. Guardian 26/2/98 (Maya Jaggi) UK
4. Irish Times 14/3/98 (Eileen Battersby) Eire
5. TLS 13/2/98 (Shirley Chew) UK
6. Sunday Tribune 8/2/98 (Alannah Hopkin) UK
7. The Times 21/1/98 (Christina Koning) UK
8. Scotland on Sunday 1/2/98 (Rosemary Goring) UK
9. Scotsman 7/2/98 (Ali Smith) UK
10. Sunday Telegraph 8/2/98 (Simon Linnell) UK
11. Marie Claire 2/98 (Carolyn Hart) UK
12. India Today 22/12/97 (Suvir Kaul) India
13. Evening Standard 2/3/98 (Mark Sanderson) UK
14. The Literary Gentleman (Bruce King) (5/98) India
15. Canberra Times (Jennifer Moran) 8/8/98 Australia
16. Spectator 24/1/98 (Kate Grimond) UK
17. Literary Review 2/98 (John Thieme) UK
18. Sunday Leader 2/98 (Sonali Samarasinghe) Sri Lanka
19. New Statesman 20/2/98 (Jason Cowley) UK
20. Mail on Sunday 15/2/98 (Philip Hensher) UK
21. Independent on Saturday 15/2/98 (Shena Mackay) UK
22. Time (Pico Iyer) 7/9/98 USA
23. Union-Tribune (Brian Alexander) 11/10/98 USA
24. Salon (Tom Beer) 1/10/98 USA
25. New York Times (Jacqueline Carey) 17/1/99
Reef
(reviews)
1.
New York Times Book Review (Edward Hower) 26/3/95
2. New York Review of Books (Pico Iyer) 22/6/95
3. Independent on Sunday (Candia McWilliam) 3/7/94
4. Guardian (Julian Evans) 5/7/94
5. The Times (David Park) 7/7/94
6. Scotland on Sunday (Alam Taylor) 17/7/94
7. The Economist 23/7/94
8. Hindu (S Krishnan) 14/5/95 India
8. Boston Review (Neil Gordon) May 95
9. Deccan Herald (K T Sunitha Byrappa) 15/1/95 India
10. India Today (Sahi Tharoor) 30/11/94
11. The Washington Post (Guy Amirthanagayam) 25/6/95
12. Los Angeles Times (Richard Eder) 19/2/95
13. The Independent (Robert Winder) 24/6/94
14. Islands (Melinda Lewis-Matravers) April 95
15. San Francisco Chronicle (Carey Harrison) 25/3/95
16. Philadelphia Inquirer (Peter Landry) 26/3/95
17 LA Times -Picayune (Chris Waddington) 12/3/95
18 Toronto Globe (Patric Rengeger) 11/3/95
19 National Catholic Reporter (David Toolan) 26/5/95
20 The Boston Globe (Robert Taylor) 1/3/95
Monkfish Moon
(reviews)
1.
Vogue (Natasha Walters) 3/92
2. The New York Times Book Review (Suzanne Berne) 8/1/93
3. Sunday Times (Peter Kemp) 8/3/92
4. Independent (Sabine Durrant) 16/3/92
5. New Statesman & Society (D J Taylor)
6. India Today (Tarun J Tejpal) 15/6/92
7. The Plain Dealer (Gail Pool) 20/6/93
8. Village Voice (Nisid Hajari) April 93
9. Los Angeles Times (Chris Goodrich) 4/5/93
10. Wasafiri (Neloufer de Mel)
Some
Critical Essays
1.
Reef: A Chekhovian Awareness and Mood (Charles Sarvan) in The Toronto
Review vol. 16 No. 2 1998
2. Myths of Childhood in Romesh Gunesekera's Reef (Rocio G Davis) in
Commonwealth Essays & Studies 20.2 Spring 1998
3. The Captives and the Lion's Claw: Reading Romesh Gunesekera's Monkfish
Moon (Paula Burnett) in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature VOL.XXXII
NO.2 1997
4. Home Truths by Susheila Nasta (Palgrave 2002)