Nayomi Munaweera

Nayomi Munaweera is a Sri Lankan American writer and author of Island of a Thousand Mirrors, which won Commonwealth Book Prize for the Asian Region in 2013.

Island of a Thousand Mirrors was her debut novel and was published in South Asia in 2012. It went on to be nominated for many of the sub-continent’s major literary prizes including Man Asian Literary Prize and won the Commonwealth Regional Prize for Asia in 2013.^[1] It was long listed for the International DUBLIN Literary Award and short listed for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature.^[2] The novel was released in America by St. Martin’s Press in 2014. It tells the story of the conflict between two main ethnic groups in Sri Lanka from the perspective of two girls who witness the horror. The civil war officially began in 1983 and continued until 2009.^[3]

Biography

Nayomi Munaweera was born in Sri Lanka, grew up in Nigeria and settled in Southern California. She holds bachelor's degree in Literature from the University of California, Irvine and a master's degree in South Asian Literature from the University of California, Riverside.^[4]

References

1. "The Rumpus Interview with Nayomi Munaweera". therumpus.net. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
2. "Nayomi Munaweera". Huffington Post. huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
3. "'A Thousand Mirrors' Shows Two Views Of One Long, Brutal War". www.npr.org. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
4. "Nayomi Munaweera | Biography". nayomimunaweera.com. Retrieved 12 August 2015.