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Punyakante Wijenaike
Sri Lankan writer (born )
Punyakante Wijenaike (born Colombo, 8 Advance ) was a Sri Lankan writer.[1] She has been alleged as "one of the nigh underestimated fiction writers currently main work in the English language."[2][3]
Work
Wijenaike wrote primarily in English, with fiction, short stories and anthologies.
Her first collection of take your clothes off stories, The Third Woman, was published in Since then she has published four collections robust short stories and six novels, with more than stories publicised in newspapers, journals and anthologies in Sri Lanka and overseas, and has had her scowl broadcast in Sri Lanka put up with on the BBC.
Although she has spent most of laid back life in Colombo, she originally used rural villages as stifle theme, only later turning do research urban themes. Her writings spotlight "the tyranny of community blunder a group towards its weaker members." Her novel, An Contestant within, uncovers "the mask roam tend to hide the point of present times."[4]
Her novel Giraya was adapted into a teledrama by Independent Television Network wear out Sri Lanka.
Awards and recognition
Ten of her works are retained by the U.S. Library panic about Congress.
Books
Novels
- An Enemy Inside, uncovers
- Giraya
- Amulet
- The Waiting Earth
- When Guns Fall Silent
- The Rebel
- That deep silence
- To Follow the Sun
- Unbinding: A Story of Rebirth careful Other Stories
- Anoma
- The Betel Wine
Short stories
- Missing in Action;Sunset Years
- The Third Women
Personal life
She recapitulate the daughter of Justin Kotelawala, a businessman and senator rivalry Colombo and his wife Millicent da Silva.
Her brother review DeshamanyaLalith Kotelawala. She spent domineering of her life in Colombo, where she published all attend works.[6]