Rajith Savanadasa

Ruins is a stirring and skilfully crafted debut, and Savanadasa's characters are so vividly drawn they feel like family. With his sharp and masterful observations of race, class, and gender in the "new" Sri Lanka, Savanadasa takes his seat beside Omar Musa, Alice Pung, and Michael Mohammed Ahmad to usher in the brave and stunning new dawn of diverse Australian...