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Celebrating Anne the journalist and writer Saturday, February 9 saw friends and family of the late Anne Abayasekara, gather to celebrate her life as a journalist and writer. The event organised by her seven children, held at Ferguson Hall, Cinnamon Gardens Baptist Church, focused on Anne’s long and distinguished writing career from 1947-2014. It included reflections on the recently published book ‘Telling it like it is: Selected Writings Volume 1 Anne Abayasekara’. Rohan Abayasekara welcoming the guests and Dr. Nimal Sanderatne delivering his tribute to Anne Anne’s son Rohan welcomed the guests  and among friends and family members who lit the traditional oil lamp was Anne’s only great-grandson in Sri Lanka; seven- year-old Yannish. Another son Dilip  Family and friends: The audience at the launch delivered an opening prayer after which his sibling Ranjan spoke at length on ‘Telling It Like It Is – Anne the Writer’. He traced her ...

Mar 7, 2019 Posted by In Articles Tagged , , , Comments 0
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The pen PROVED MIGHTY INDEED! – A Celebration of Anne Abayasekara, journalist and writer On Saturday February 9, Cinnamon Gardens Baptist Church was host to a celebration of the work of the late Anne Abayasekara, Sri Lanka’s first woman to become a staff journalist and a much beloved writer over her career of nearly 70 years. The evening proceeded with each of her seven children speaking about their mother, recounting fond memories of the sounds of her typewriter in the family home and sharing poetry she had written for her grandchildren; all to an audience of family, friends and people who had been, in some way, affected by Abayasekara’s work. Pieces of writing were also read from a compilation of her essays and articles, entitled ‘Telling It Like It Is: Selected Writings Volume 1’. The collection, curated by her children, contains work from a prolific writing career beginning in 1947 ...

Mar 7, 2019 Posted by In Articles Tagged , , , Comments 0
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In the thick of it: Anne Abayasekera, Unfaltering Witness Review of book – ‘Telling It Like It Is’ – by Suvendrini Kanagasabai Perera Reflecting on her life at an address to the Rotary Club in 2012, Anne Abayasekara made a telling comparison between the life of the creative writer and what she described as her own “enduring  love affair with journalism”: “The distinctive feature about journalism … is that in writing for newspapers, you don’t sit in solitude, but have to be out on the street, in the thick of people and events.”   Anne Abayasekara spent over 65 years in the thick of it, thoroughly enmeshed in a world she relished and clearly loved, but nonetheless viewed with great clarity. Her extraordinary career spans Independence in 1948 (she attended the festivities as a young reporter for the fashion pages), the three grim decades of the war and the unpromising ...

Dec 9, 2018 Posted by In Articles Tagged , Comments 0
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The pioneering Sri Lankan woman journalist’s first collection! – Telling it like it is… By Anne Abayasekara BOOKS NOW AVAILABLE IN MELBOURNE/SYDNEY! Price in Melbourne/Sydney – Aus $15 CASH  BUYERS IN MELBOURNE – PLEASE PHONE TO ARRANGE PICK UP OR POSTAL DELIVERY  Contact: THARIN PEIRIS* – 03 9370 5017 / Mobile 0434 013 733   *NOT AVAILABLE 17/18 November Period for Book Sale: Until 1st December 2018 in Melbourne – a good Christmas gift! TIMES FOR PHONE CALLS: Sunday/Weekdays 11am and 6pm Or Saturday 12 noon and 4pm    Address for Pick up: 218, Maribyrnong Road, MOONEE PONDS, VIC 3039  SUGGESTION: Anyone coming from distant suburbs can also pick up on behalf of friends who live close to them. Check with your friends!  BUYERS IN SYDNEY–Contact ROHAN rabay@optusnet.com.au –FOR PICK UP/POSTAL DELIVERY Buyers in SriLanka – copies available at the outlets below Barefoot, Rohan’s Kiosk (Liberty Plaza), Sarasavi Bookshop (Nugegoda), ...

Oct 10, 2018 Posted by In Articles, Classifieds Tagged , , Comments 0
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