Nayomi munaweera biography definition
Nayomi munaweera biography definition
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Nayomi Munaweera
Sri Lankan American writer (born 1973)
Nayomi Munaweera | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1973 Sri Lanka |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Fiction |
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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, and What Lies Between Us (2016), which won the Sri Lankan National Book Award for best English novel and the Godage Award.
Biography
Nayomi Munaweera was born in Sri Lanka in 1973. Her family moved to Nigeria when she was three. In 1984, there was a military coup in Nigeria and her family moved again, this time to Los Angeles.[1] 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.[2] Munaweera now lives in Oakland and teaches at Mills College and Ashland