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Lloyd Fernando

Lloyd Fernando. Biography BBL 3206 . Introduction. Lloyd Fernando was born in Sri Lanka on May 31, 1926. Followed his family to Singapore where he grew up and received his education. When his parents decided to return to Sri Lanka, the sixteen-year-old Fernando decided to stay behind.

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Lloyd Fernando

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  1. Lloyd Fernando Biography BBL 3206

  2. Introduction • Lloyd Fernando was born in Sri Lanka on May 31, 1926. • Followed his family to Singapore where he grew up and received his education. • When his parents decided to return to Sri Lanka, the sixteen-year-old Fernando decided to stay behind. • He continued to fund his education by taking odd jobs like working as a labourer, trishaw rider and an apprentice mechanic. • He later took part time jobs as a radio broadcasting assistant and newsreader.

  3. He successfully graduated with double Honours degrees in English and Philosophy from the University of Singapore. • He later went on to acquire his PhD from the University of Leeds. • He began teaching at University of Malaya in 1967, and was head of the English Department for a period. • Whilst lecturing at the University, Fernando took up law purely by chance, and later decided to be a lawyer in order to not stop working upon reaching a retirement age.

  4. In 1978, he left the academic profession to concentrate on his law profession. • He began writing at the age of fifteen. • He describes writing as taking snapshots of the society and showing the reality without being sentimental. • Fernando approaches his writing in a very disciplined manner. • He begins writing at eight in the morning , and only takes breaks for lunch and tea.

  5. His works: • His first novel, Scorpion Orchid presents the story of four university friends of different ethnic background: Sabran, a Malay; Santinathan, an Indian; Guan Kheng, a Chinese; and Peter, a Eurasian. • His second novel, Green is the Colour is a story about four individuals – Sara, Yun Ming, Dahlan and Gita, again of different racial/cultural background brought together through friendship or mutual acquaintance after the bloody May 1969 riots. • The third instalment to Fernando’s prose is his sh0rt story Surja Singh, the story of a 28-year-old soldier who lives through the Japanese Occupation and later, the return of the British.

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