James Goonewardene, In Anthropocene Times.

James Goonewardene, In Anthropocene Times. Immediately after independence, in a generation where Sri Lankan English creativity was not widespread – indeed, where post-independence nationalists critiqued and questioned the act of writing in the former colonizer’s language – James Goonewardene published a corpus that made him the leading novelist of the epoch. As a result, novels...

James Goonewardene

James Goonewardene (1921-1997) was born in Pannala to a bilingual family of a Christian and Buddhist mixed household and was brought up in Matara and Colombo. He had an English education and attended Christian schools and, along with Punyakante Wijenaike and Raja Proctor, emerged as one of the key Lankan novelists in the English language...