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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.
Sonali Deraniyagala lost her entire family in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and survived by a miracle. In this book, she recounts her harrowing ordeal and her long journey of grief and recovery.
5 de mar. de 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...
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Há 5 dias · In Berkeley Talks episode 201, Deraniyagala discusses her all-consuming grief in the aftermath of the tragedy and the process of writing about it in her 2013 memoir, Wave. “Wave was the wave was the wave,” said Deraniyagala, who spoke in April 2024 at an event for Art of Writing, a program of UC Berkeley’s Doreen B. Townsend Center for ...
Sonali Deraniyagala lost her entire family in the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 and survived by clinging to a tree branch. Her memoir, Wave, recounts her journey of grief, memory, and survival in the years after the tragedy.
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22 de mar. de 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 her family. By chapter’s end she’s...
5 de mar. de 2013 · In 2004, at a beach resort on the coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala and her family—parents, husband, sons—were swept away by a tsunami. Only Sonali survived to...
