Vyshnavee Wijekumar

Sri Lankan Pākehā writer Saraid de Silva’s debut novel Amma is a beautiful depiction of ancestry, motherhood, grief and migration, told through a heartbreaking intergenerational story. “Amma” means “mother” in Tamil, alluding to …

Maxine Beneba Clarke’s bestselling memoir The Hate Race is brilliantly translated to the stage at Malthouse Theatre.

The autobiographical debut Me, Her, Us by Yen-Rong Wong – winner of the Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer in 2022, and a theatre reviewer for this paper – lays bare the most intimate aspects of her journey to self-discovery. …

The Days Toppled Over is about isolation and bonds forged through non-familial companionship. Vidya Madabushi’s protagonist, Malli, is reticent, as if she were conceived during the restrictions of the pandemic. Her world is confined to the …

Kate Mulvany’s brilliant performance as Sarah Bernhardt is the linchpin of the Melbourne Theatre Company’s Bernhardt / Hamlet.

While The Matchmaker’s title suggests the lead character is a stately woman in her 50s from Mumbai, Saman Shad’s debut novel gives us quite a different picture. Saima is in her 30s and runs a modern matchmaking service for the Pakistani community …

Sri Lanka’s complex story has been told by people as various as rapper and singer M. I. A., playwright S. Shakthidharan and authors Niromi de Soyza, Anuk Arudpragasam and Shehan Karunatilaka. All extrapolate personal and political histories to portray …

Sarah Malik’s Desi Girl could have been ripped from the pages of my own life. Her story is almost parallel to mine, growing up in Western Sydney, attending an academically focused selective high school. Cultural consumption of such fare as …

Vidya Rajan’s gift for absurdist comedy has led to a career spanning everything from avant-garde internet performance to mainstream theatre.

In Western Sydney, multigenerational families living in migrant households are finding new ways to confront the pandemic.