Ru Freeman
BornColombo, Sri Lanka
OccupationWriter
LanguageSinhala, English, French
CitizenshipSri Lankan and American
EducationMurdoch University
Alma materBates College;
University of Colombo
GenreProse, Poetry, Journalism
RelativesArjuna Seneviratne, Malinda Seneviratne (Brothers) Gamini Seneviratne (Father) Ingrain Seneviratne (mother, dec.)
Website
rufreeman.com

Ru Freeman is a Sri Lankan born writer and activist whose creative and political work has appeared internationally, including in the UK Guardian, The Boston Globe, and the New York Times. She is the author of the novels A Disobedient Girl (Atria/Simon & Schuster, 2009), and On Sal Mal Lane (Graywolf Press), a NYT Editor’s Choice Book. Both novels have been translated into multiple languages including Italian, French, Turkish, Dutch, and Chinese. She is editor of the anthology, Extraordinary Rendition: (American) Writers on Palestine (OR Books, 2015 and Interlink, 2016), a collection of the voices of 65 American poets and writers speaking about America’s dis/engagement with Palestine, and co-editor of the anthology, Indivisible: Global Leaders on Shared Security (Interlink, 2019). She holds a graduate degree in labor studies, researching female migrant labor in the countries of Kuwait, the U.A.E, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and has worked at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC, in the South Asia office of the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL/CIO), and the American Friends Service Committee in their humanitarian and disaster relief programs. She is a contributing editorial board member of the Asian American Literary Review, and a fellow of the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Lannan Foundation. She is the 2014 winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction by an American Woman. She writes for the Huffington Post on books and politics.

Life

Ru Freeman was born in Colombo.[1] She studied at Murdoch University and graduated from Bates College with a BA, and from the University of Colombo.[2]

Her work has appeared in Huffington Post,[3] Guernica,[4] Story Quarterly, VQR,[5] Crab Orchard Review, Narrative,[6] World Literature Today,[7] Post Road, Confessions: Fact or Fiction?.[8]

She teaches at Columbia University.[9]

Works

  • A Disobedient Girl: A Novel. Simon and Schuster. 21 July 2009. ISBN 978-1-4391-0195-7.
  • On Sal Mal Lane. House of Anansi Press Incorporated. 29 April 2013. ISBN 978-1-77089-356-6.[10][11][12]

References

  1. ↑ "War & Peace: Ru Freeman".
  2. ↑ "AWP: Directory of Members".
  3. ↑ "13 Bests of AWP 2013". HuffPost. 12 March 2013.
  4. ↑ "Ru Freeman: Siege".
  5. ↑ "Ru Freeman | VQR Online".
  6. ↑ "Ru Freeman | Narrative Magazine". 30 July 2012.
  7. ↑ "Ru Freeman".
  8. ↑ "Ru Freeman | Graywolf Press". www.graywolfpress.org. Archived from the original on 2014-05-19.
  9. ↑ "Undergraduate Information".
  10. ↑ "Book review: 'On Sal Mal Lane,' by Ru Freeman | Dallasnews.com - News for Dallas, Texas - The Dallas Morning News". Archived from the original on 2013-06-11.
  11. ↑ "Ru Freeman's novel of family, conflict in Sri Lanka".
  12. ↑ Cristina García. "Just Around the Corner". The New York Times. Ru Freeman's assured second novel is a much quieter yet rewarding portrait of a community of families on a dead-end road in Colombo, the country's capital. They are a mixed lot on Sal Mal Lane: Sinhalese, Tamils and Burghers, descendants of European colonizers.
External audio
audio icon Ru Freeman: "On Sal Mal Lane", The Diane Rehm Show June 3, 2013
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