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1 Man Booker Prize Longlist 2016 : Adelaide Uni's JM Coetzee Vying to Win for Third Time Latika Bourke , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: Brisbane Times , 28 July 2016; '...Coetzee's The Schooldays of Jesus has been named in the 2016 longlist alongside four authors with debut novels: David Means (Hystopia), Virginia Reeves (Work Like Any Other), Ottessa Moshfegh (Eileen) and Wyl Menmuir (The Many). ...'
1 Australian Author J.M. Coetzee Omitted from Man Booker Prize Shortlist Latika Bourke , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: Brisbane Times , 13 September 2016; 'J.M. Coetzee has been knocked out of the Man Booker Prize dashing the Australian - South African's author's hopes of becoming the first writer to win the prestigious prize three times. ...'
1 A Life Not My Own Latika Bourke , 2015 extract autobiography (From India with Love : Growing up Australian and the Journey of Self-discovery That Led Me Back to My Indian Roots)
— Appears in: Sunday Life , 19 April 2015; (p. 14-15)

'In this extract from her new book, Latika Bourke writes about the teenage Indian mother she never knew. '
1 y separately published work icon From India with Love : Growing up Australian and the Journey of Self-discovery That Led Me Back to My Indian Roots Latika Bourke , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2015 8478705 2015 single work autobiography

'Latika Bourke was adopted from India, aged eight months. Growing up in Bathurst, New South Wales she felt a deep connection to her Australian home and her Australian family.

'It wasn't until she heard her name uttered in the hit movie Slumdog Millionaire that Latika recognised she knew nothing of her Indian roots, the world she was born into and what she could have become had she not been brought to Australia as a baby.

'As Latika carved out a successful career for herself as an award-winning political journalist, she became more and more curious about her heritage and what it meant to be born in India and raised in Australia. And so began a deeply personal and sometimes confronting journey back to her birthplace to unravel the mysteries of her heritage.

'From India with Love is a beautiful story of finding your place in the world and finding peace with the path that led you there.'
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