Gamini Akmeemana

Novelist · Journalist · Photographer

Gamini Akmeemana is a Sri Lankan novelist, journalist and photographer. His manuscript The Mirage won the Gratiaen Prize. His journalism began at the Jordan Times, and he later worked with the Midweek Mirror.

His fiction brings individual lives into the pressures of political conflict. Pol Pot’s Ghost follows a Cambodian commander whose past, loyalties and love become matters of survival.

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