Ameena Hussein is a Sri Lankan author and co-founder of the Perera-Hussein Publishing House. Her non-fiction book Chasing Tall Tales and Mystics: Ibn Battuta in Sri Lanka won the State Literary Prize for Humanities, 2020 and was shortlisted for the Gratiaen Prize. Her novel The Moon in the Water was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Award and the Dublin IMPAC. She has also written two award-winning collections of short stories, Fifteen and Zillij, as well as three children’s books. Ameena was one of the judges for the 2023 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. 

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• Fifteen (1999)

• The Moon in the Water (2009)
• Chasing Tall Tales and Mystics: Ibn Battuta in Sri Lanka (2020)