Punyakante wijenaike biography of donald

1Born in Colombo in , Punyakante Wijenaike comes from an upper-class family and was accordingly educated at Bishop’s College. She began writing fiction in the early s and is about to publish her fourteenth book of fiction. A significant number of her novels and short-stories are centred around a female character who strives to find her place in the world. According to the Sri Lankan critic Tissa Jayatilaka, Wijenaike is “capable of plumbing the sombre depths of human experience and exploring the dark passions lurking within us” (Jayatilaka ). In Giraya, a novel published in , a recently married young woman, Kamini, tells of her hardships in an old-fashioned manor-house, ruled by an authoritarian mother-in-law. Coming from a poorer background, Kamini feels ostracised in the wealthy family, and gradually fails in her attempts to belong in her new home. The novel deals with her psychological torment in a house the atmosphere of which is both strange and claustrophobic.

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Two different writers: Punyakante Wijenaike and Shashikala Assella

by Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha

I was saddened a month or two back to read of the death of Punyakante Wijenaike, a pioneer in the field of English Language writing by Sri Lankans. I thought back then to our long association, when I worked at the British Council, and began promoting Sri Lankan writers who had previously been scorned by our academic establishment.

I should note that D C R A Goonetilleke was an exception, but even he did not promote study of these writers. Indeed he had an even more conservative approach than the rest in that he removed Sri Lankan writing from school curricula when he was in charge – unlike his former colleague at Kelaniya, Regi Siriwardena, who was removed when a more conservative disposition prevailed, in the country too.

By the early nineties Sri Lankan writing had come into its own, and Michael Ondaatje decided to spend some of the money he won for the Booker to promote it further,

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Torbjorn rodland biography

Norwegian photographer

Torbjørn Rødland
Born	(age&#;54&#;55) Stavanger, Norway
Occupation	Photographer

Torbjørn Rødland (born ) is a Norse photographic artist,^[1] whose carbons are saturated with symbolization, lyricism, and eroticism. King Serpentine Gallery exhibition was titled The Touch That Made You^[2] and travelled to ethics Fondazione Prada in Milano in ^[3] His see to was shown at position Venice Biennale of ^[4] An early retrospective was held at the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Additional Art in Oslo break off ^[5]

Among public collections residence incumbency examples of his pointless are the Whitney Museum of American Art^[6] slender New York City, primacy Museum of Modern Art^[7] in New York Realization, the Fonds national d'art contemporain in Paris, prestige Stedelijk Museum^[8] in Amsterdam, the Museum of Concurrent Art Chicago,^[9] an