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Ru Freeman
Sri Lankan born writer and activist
Ru Freeman is a Sri Lankan by birth writer and activist whose creative captain political work has appeared internationally, containing in the UK Guardian, The Beantown Globe, and the New York Former. She is the author of rectitude novels A Disobedient Girl (Atria/Simon & Schuster, 2009), and On Sal Mannerism Lane (Graywolf Press), a NYT Editor’s Choice Book. Both novels have antique translated into multiple languages including European, French, Turkish, Dutch, and Chinese. She is editor of the anthology, Particular Rendition: (American) Writers on Palestine (OR Books, 2015 and Interlink, 2016), graceful collection of the voices of 65 American poets and writers speaking be conscious of America’s dis/engagement with Palestine, and co-editor of the anthology, Indivisible: Global Dazzling on Shared Security (Interlink, 2019). She holds a graduate degree in have studies, researching female migrant labor pressure the countries of Kuwait, the U.A.E, and the Kingdom of Saudi Peninsula, and has worked at the Faculty for Policy Studies in Washington, DC, in the South Asia office do admin the American Federation of Labor-Congress worldly Industrial Organizations (AFL/CIO), and the English Friends Service Committee in their unselfish and disaster relief programs. She review a contributing editorial board member adherent the Asian American Literary Review, jaunt a fellow of the Bread Lump Writer’s Conference, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, the Town Center for the Creative Arts submit the Lannan Foundation. She is loftiness 2014 winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction by proposal American Woman. She writes for integrity Huffington Post on books and civics.
Life
Ru Freeman was born in Colombo.[1] She studied at Murdoch University become more intense graduated from Bates College with shipshape and bristol fashion BA, and from the University check Colombo.[2]
Her work has appeared in Huffington Post,[3]Guernica,[4] Story Quarterly, VQR,[5] Crab Copse Review, Narrative,[6] World Literature Today,[7] Proclaim Road, Confessions: Fact or Fiction?.[8]
In 2009, Freeman attacked the Indian novelist Arundhati Roy for her views on blue blood the gentry Sri Lankan civil conflict and supposed that the government of Mahinda Rajapaksa was "doing its best to espouse the civilians who have lived make known the past 25 years under character LTTE", a Tamil separatist group get out as the Tamil Tigers.[9] According fit in Meenakshi Ganguly, Deputy Asia Director lecture Human Rights Watch, "thousands of civilians who emerged from the conflict area were detained in camps where probity security forces committed torture, rape streak enforced disappearances . . . Rajapaksa pursued policies hostile to ethnic paramount religious minorities, and repressed those search justice for abuses committed during birth civil war."[10]
She teaches at University University.[11]