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Ameena Hussein was trained as a sociologist and is a publisher and fiction writer. She has published two collections of short stories; Fifteen, shortlisted for the Gratiaen award in 1999, and Zillij which won the State Literary Prize in 2005. She worked for a number years at the International Centre of Ethnic Studies, Colombo where she produced a report, Sometimes there is no Blood, that described the ground breaking research on violence against women in rural areas. She is the co-founder of the Perera Hussein Publishing House, (www.ph-books.com) created in 2003 to enable and encourage talented South Asian fiction writers to gain exposure and recognition. In 2005 she attended the prestigious International Writers Program conducted by the University of Iowa. She was the editor of Nethra, a creative literary journal from 2004 to 2007. Her first novel The Moon in the Water was long-listed for the first ever Man Asia Literary Prize and was published in January 2009. She is currently at work editing Sri Lanka’s first ever book of modern erotic stories. She lives in Sri Lanka.

Ameena Hussein will be featured at the following events:

Friday 29 January, 11.15 AM -12.15 PM, Maritime Museum: Adoption Papers. 

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