Punyakante wijenaike biography of donald
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1Born in Colombo in , Punyakante Wijenaike comes from an upper-class family and was accordingly educated at Bishop’s College. She began writing fiction in the early s and is about to publish her fourteenth book of fiction. A significant number of her novels and short-stories are centred around a female character who strives to find her place in the world. According to the Sri Lankan critic Tissa Jayatilaka, Wijenaike is “capable of plumbing the sombre depths of human experience and exploring the dark passions lurking within us” (Jayatilaka ). In Giraya, a novel published in , a recently married young woman, Kamini, tells of her hardships in an old-fashioned manor-house, ruled by an authoritarian mother-in-law. Coming from a poorer background, Kamini feels ostracised in the wealthy family, and gradually fails in her attempts to belong in her new home. The novel deals with her psychological torment in a house the atmosphere of which is both strange and claustrophobic.
2The second novelist is of a younger generation and, contrary to Wijenaike who has always lived in Colombo, is a diasporic writer, now settled in Australia. Chandani Lokugé was born in Colombo. In , she migrated to Australia where she completed a PhD on Indian women writers of English fiction. Her three
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Two different writers: Punyakante Wijenaike and Shashikala Assella
by Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha
I was saddened a month or two back to read of the death of Punyakante Wijenaike, a pioneer in the field of English Language writing by Sri Lankans. I thought back then to our long association, when I worked at the British Council, and began promoting Sri Lankan writers who had previously been scorned by our academic establishment.
I should note that D C R A Goonetilleke was an exception, but even he did not promote study of these writers. Indeed he had an even more conservative approach than the rest in that he removed Sri Lankan writing from school curricula when he was in charge – unlike his former colleague at Kelaniya, Regi Siriwardena, who was removed when a more conservative disposition prevailed, in the country too.
By the early nineties Sri Lankan writing had come into its own, and Michael Ondaatje decided to spend some of the money he won for the Booker to promote it further, and set up the Gratiaen Trust in which he expected me to make the running initially. And I continue proud of the winners in the first two years, when I was primarily responsible for selecting the judges. The two books that won in that period are still seen as important, Carl Muller’s Jam Fruit Tree
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Torbjorn rodland biography
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