| 词条 | James Goonewardene |
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James Alexander Shedden-Goonewardene (1921–1997) was a Sri Lankan writer. He was born in Pannala, Sri-Lanka, and was raised in Matara, Sri Lanka. He was the son of Mabel Alice Goonewardene and James Robert Shedden, a police inspector serving in the remote town of Pannala, Sri-Lanka. After his birth the family moved to Matara, Sri-Lanka, where they spent several years before moving to Harmer's Avenue in Wellawatte, Colombo. He studied at the University of London. During the 1950s, he began writing stories while working as a school teacher. In 1963, he became a broadcaster for Radio Ceylon while writing skits and dramas for the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation. James' first novel A Quiet Place was published in 1968, followed by Call of the Kirala in 1971. In 1978, he left broadcasting to devote himself full-time to writing. He published more English language novels than any other Sri-Lankan author. His work suffered some heavy criticism because English was becoming marginalized in the nationalistic passion in Sri-Lanka during the 1960s and the 1971 JVP Insurrection.[2] He was the first Sri-Lankan author to have a novel published by Penguin India and has received retroactive acclaim.[3][4] James was married to an Australian national named Sonia. He had no children and died in 1997. Bibliography
References1. ^1 {{cite book | first=Minoli | last=Salgado | year=2007 | chapter=James Goonewardene, Allegorical Islands | page=41 | title=Writing Sri Lanka: literature, resistance and the politics of place | volume=15 | series=Routledge research in postcolonial literatures | publisher=Taylor & Francis | isbn=0-415-36418-3 }} [1][2][3]2. ^1 {{cite news | first=Maureen | last=Seneviratne | date=March 2, 2008 | work=The Sunday Times Online | volume=42 | issue=40 | title=He said, ‘English will come back, it has to’: Remembering a "great" among English novelists in Sri Lanka | url=http://sundaytimes.lk/080302/Plus/plus00008.html | accessdate=2011-02-03 }} 3. ^1 {{cite news|first=Rajiva |last=Wijesinghe |date=December 22, 2006 |title=Coming to terms with Punyakanthe |work=Daily News Online |publisher=The Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Ltd |url=http://www.dailynews.lk/2006/12/22/fea03.asp |accessdate=2011-02-03 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018211109/http://www.dailynews.lk/2006/12/22/fea03.asp |archivedate=October 18, 2012 |df= }} }}{{DEFAULTSORT:Goonewardene, James}} 3 : 1921 births|1997 deaths|Sinhalese writers |
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