I went in with my eyes wide open, knowing the subject would be dark, unaware of the treatment of it by this woman with a dazzling smile who asked me to review it within an hour of meeting her. Growing up in India, some latitudes north of the Sri Lankan civil war, meant it had remotely touched me as ...
Glass Ceiling – Definition: An invisible upper limit in corporations and other organizations, above which it is difficult or impossible for women to rise in the ranks. Discrimination exists in many forms. When Michelle Gunawardane asked Rohini Nanayakkara, former Chair of the Bank of Ceylon, whether the ‘story’ she was about to relate to her would be about ‘breaking ...
There must be lots of others like myself, who have no literary pretensions, yet who enjoy and respond to poetry. Not always, in my case, for I have to confess I feel out of my depth with some kinds of modern verse. I have the temerity to try to express my appreciation of Yvonne’s poems only because they have ...
Nayomi Munaweera is a Sri Lankan-American author. Growing up in Nigeria and California, Nayomi spent months in Sri Lanka witnessing the devastation wrought upon her country of birth by civil war. These experiences led her to write her first novel, Island of a Thousand Mirrors, which was published by Perera Hussein Publishing House in late 2012. The book has ...
Samuel My Friend Fisheater, Nosediver, Let’s take a walk Up my back-alley street. Togo to Belgium, New York -Ratmalana We be thighbone striders We be shinbone fleet. Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Aparna Halpe, Perera Hussein Publishing House, poetry, Precarious, sri lanka, Sri Lankan Books, sri lankan writers
Anuradha Roy, whose third novel Sleeping on Jupiter (2015) was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, is back with a new tome. In her latest novel, All The Lives We Never Lived (published in Sri Lanka by Perera Hussein), Roy recreates through memory a journey that amounts to some prescient ...
