
A Workshop to Think
Write to Reconcile was inaugurated in December of 2012 by the internationally renowned Sri Lankan author, Shyam Selvadurai. The project was funded by the Royal Norwegian Embassy and the American Centre. In 2013, 23 emerging writers in collaboration published the Write to Reconcile anthology. The anthology included fiction and poetry in English on the issues of conflict, peace, reconciliation, memory and trauma, as they related to Sri Lanka’s civil war and the postwar period. I met Sonali Wanigabaduge in Commonwealth People’s Forum 2013. We were staying in the same hotel room and she gave me the Write to Reconcile...
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