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词条 Jean Arasanayagam
释义

  1. Background

  2. Early life

  3. Works

  4. External links

  5. References

Jean Arasanayagam (born Jean Solomons; 1931 in Kandy, Sri Lanka) is an English-language poet and fiction writer. The theme in her work is ethnic and religious turmoil in Sri Lanka. Her husband, Thiyagarajah Arasanayagam and their two daughters, Devasundari and Parvathi, all share the same passion for writing, one, Parvathi has taken after Jean. She has made a mark of her own as a poet/writer.

Background

She is a Dutch Burgher, the term for offspring of Dutchmen and indigenous women.

Early life

Arasanayagam attended the Girls' High School, Kandy.[1]

Works

  • Past teacher of St. Anthony's College, Kandy

Poetry

  • Kindura (1973)
  • Poems of Season Beginning and a Season Over (1977)
  • Apocalypse '83 (1984)
  • The Cry of the Kite (1984)
  • A Colonial Inheritance and Other Poems (1985)
  • Out of Our Prisons We Emerge (1987)
  • Trial by Terror (1987)
  • Reddened Waters Flow Clear (1991)
  • Shooting the Floricans (1993)
  • Nallur
  • ruined gopuram
  • mother-in-law

Prose

  • The Cry of the Kite (A collection of short stories) (Kandy, 1984)
  • The Outsider (Nagasaki University: Bulletin of the Faculty of Liberal Arts, 1989)
  • Fragments of a Journey (Colombo : WERC, 1992)
  • All is Burning (New Delhi : Penguin Books India, 1995)
  • Peacocks and Dreams (New Delhi : Navrang, 1996)

External links

  • Literary Encyclopedia page
  • SAWNET: Bookshelf: Jean Arasanayagam

References

1. ^{{cite web | last =Abayasekara | first =Anne | title =Those schoolgirl days! | work =Review of Girls’ High School-Kandy Reminiscences (1879-2004). O.G.A. Souvenir. | publisher =Rootsweb | url =http://www.rootsweb.com/~lkawgw/kghs.htm | accessdate = 2007-12-08 }}
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15 : 1931 births|Alumni of Girls' High School, Kandy|Burgher poets|Burgher writers|Living people|People from Kandy|Sri Lankan novelists|Sri Lankan people of Dutch descent|Sri Lankan women poets|Women novelists|20th-century Sri Lankan writers|20th-century Sri Lankan women writers|21st-century Sri Lankan writers|21st-century Sri Lankan women writers|International Writing Program alumni

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