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Sonali Deraniyagala (born 1964) is a Sri Lankan memoirist and economist. She serves as a lecturer in Economics at the SOAS South Asia Institute. She considers Joan Didion and Michael Ondaatje her favourite literary heroes. Personal life. She was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, to lawyer (Justin) Edward Pieris Deraniyagala and Gemini Deraniyagala.
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Mar 9, 2013 · Sonali Deraniyagala lost her husband, children and parents in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, and was maddened with grief. What has saved her is daring to remember – and to write. Sat 9 Mar 2013...
Mar 5, 2013 · Sonali Deraniyagala lost her husband, two sons and parents to the Indian Ocean tsunami that claimed the lives of more than 200,000 people. Her new memoir recounts the events of that fateful day.
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Mar 22, 2013 · By Cheryl Strayed. March 22, 2013. Sonali Deraniyagala’s extraordinary memoir, “Wave,” opens on the morning of Dec. 26, 2004, as the author putters around a Sri Lankan beach-side hotel with...
Sonali Deraniyagala lost her entire family in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and survived by clinging to a tree branch. In this memoir, she recounts her grief, her memories, and her journey of healing.
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Apr 3, 2013 · Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala – review. Deraniyagala's memoir about losing her husband and sons in the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami is, for William Dalrymple, possibly one of the most moving books...
Mar 5, 2013 · March 5, 2013. “This is the saddest story I have ever heard.” So goes the first sentence of Ford Madox Ford’s 1915 masterpiece, “The Good Soldier.” It’s a sentence that may spin in your mind while...
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