Suneeta Peres da Costa is an acclaimed Australian author best known for her tragicomic novel, Homework (1999) and a novella, Saudade (2018).

[1] Peres da Costa was twenty-three years old when her tragicomic novel Homework, about a dysfunctional Goan migrant family set in suburban Sydney, was published internationally by Bloomsbury.

Two biographical works, The Art of Straying (which imagines the last night in the life of cultural philosopher, Walter Benjamin) and Estranged Muse (on James Joyce's daughter) were also produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

[10] Her 2018 novella on the subject of saudade, follows Maria, a young girl from a Goan immigrant family, growing up in a political hierarchy of racism and colonialism in Portuguese Angola.

[13][14] Suneeta Peres Da Costa's—Saudade— is a beautifully conceived story told from the perspective of a young Goan migrant who lives with her family in Angola during the last years of Portuguese occupation [...] Saudade is notable for the gorgeous fluency of its prose style.