I grew up in a house which had books in every room. We read everything we could lay our hands on. From well thumbed, back copies of my uncle’s Readers Digests to my father’s leather bound tomes of Anna Karenina, and...
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Ameena Hussein
Ameena HUSSEIN (fiction/nonfiction writer; Sri Lanka) is a publisher and writer. Her debut novel The Moon in the Water was long-listed for the Man Asian Literary and the Dublin IMPAC prizes; her story collection, Fifteen, was shortlisted for the Gratiaen Prize; a second, Zillij, won the State Literary Prize. She edited Sri Lanka’s first-ever collection of adult stories, and children’s collections MilkRice, MilkRice 2 and Vampire Umpire.
The author of the study Sometimes There Is No Blood, based on her sociological research on violence against women in rural Sri Lanka, she has extensive experience in community organizing. In addition to directing the publishing house Hussein-Perrera, which she co-founded, she works on reforestation, planting hardwood trees, coconuts and cashew. Please see Ameena's website for more of her publications and edited works.
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Enchantment The speaker has a crow's nest on her head. It is really her hair heaped on top of her head; tendrils escape into jagged wisps that stand around her face and droop artfully onto her forehead. It is... media_text
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Don Justin Haputantri’s Day Don Justin works on a small coconut land on the North-West Coast of Sri Lanka. His home town is in a very different area of the island – the South. Unlike here, where it is semi-... media_text
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In the year 500 AD the great sage Adishanya had a series of visions that he inscribed on fifty ola leaves. In the late forties an archaeology student discovered... media_text
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I grew up in a house which had books in every room. We read everything we could lay our hands on. From well thumbed, back copies of my uncle’s Readers Digests to my father’s leather bound tomes of Anna Karenina, and... media_text
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For the past ten years I have led a double life, for not only am I a writer I am also a publisher of English language books. Sri Lanka has two official languages: Sinhala and Tamil with English as the link language.... media_text
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"You are a storyteller, so tell me a story." "I will." She looked across the table at the big man. His grey hair. His brown eyes. She watched him get older as time passed and wondered if he had... media_text
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