Jean Arasanayagam

Harshana Rambukwella (University of Hong Kong)

Ed. by John Thieme, University of East Anglia
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 10.3.4: Sri Lankan Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), Birte Heidemann (Technische Universität Dresden), Pavan Kumar Malreddy (J W Goethe University of Frankfurt), Delphine Munos (Université de Liège)

Dates

Born 1930
Died 2019
Activity 1970-2019

Places

Born in Sri Lanka
Active in Sri Lanka

Cultural Identities

Feminist

Activities

Primary

Novelist
Poet

Resources

Arasanayagam's Works

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Born to a Burgher family as Jean Solomons in the hill town of Kandy in Sri Lanka, Jean Arasanayagam is recognized as one of Sri Lanka’s foremost contemporary English literary voices. She is among a select few resident Sri Lankan English writers to be published internationally and her work has been central to sustaining the vibrant Anglophone writing tradition in the country. Arasanayagam received her schooling in Kandy and graduated from the University of Peradeniya. Having worked as an English educator in various tertiary and secondary educational institutions, she began publishing her work in the early 1970s. Her work has been widely published in English and has also been translated into Danish, Swedish, French, German and Japanese. She obtained an M.Litt in Literary Linguistics from…

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Citation: Rambukwella, Harshana. "Jean Arasanayagam". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 03 May 2005 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5902, accessed 21 November 2024.]