Jean Arasanayagam
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Jean Arasanayagam (born Jean Solomons, 1930 in Kandy, Sri Lanka) is an English-language poet and fiction writer. The theme in her work is ethnic and religious turmoil in Sri Lanka.
[edit] Background
Arasanayagam is a 'Dutch Burgher," the term for offspring of Dutchmen and indigenous women. Her marriage to a Tamil was rejected by her husband's family.
[edit] Works
- Kindura (1973)
- Apocalypse '83 (1983)
- The Cry of the Kite (1984)
- A Colonial Inheritance and Other Poems (1985)
- Fragments of a Journey (1992)
- All Is Burning (1995)
