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Ambalavaner Sivanandan
Ambalavaner Sivanandan (born 20 December 1923, in Colombo) is a Sri Lankan novelist,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.newleftreview.org/?view=2812 )〕 and director of the Institute of Race Relations, a London-based independent educational charity.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A. Sivanandan )〕 His first novel, ''When Memory Dies'', won the 1998 Commonwealth Writers' Prize in the Best First Book category for Europe and South Asia. He left Sri Lanka after the 1958 riots.
==Background and history==
The son of Ambalavaner, a worker in the postal system who came from the village of Sandilipay in Jaffna in the north of the island, Sivanandan was educated at St. Joseph's College, Colombo. There he was taught by J. P. de Fonseka, who inspired him with a love of the English language alongside his native Tamil.〔''New Left Review'' (Volume 60, November–December 2009).〕 He later studied at the University of Ceylon, graduating in Economics in 1945. He went on to teach in the Ceylon "Hill Country" and then worked for the Bank of Ceylon, where he became one of the first "native" bank managers.〔Quintin Hoare & Malcolm Imrie, "The Heart Is Where the Battle Is", in ''Communities of Resistance: writings on black struggles for socialism'', Verso, 1990; and Louis Kushnick & Paul Grant, "Catching History on the Wing: A Sivanandan as Activist, Teacher, and Rebel", in ''Against the Odds: Scholars who Challenged Racism in the Twentieth Century'', eds Benjamin P. Bowser & Louis Kushnick, University of Massachusetts Press, 2002.〕
On coming to the UK, after a spell as a clerk in Vavasseur and Co and unable to obtain work in banking, Sivanandan took a job in Middlesex libraries and retrained as a librarian. He worked variously in public libraries, for the Colonial Office library and in 1964 was appointed chief librarian at the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) in central London.〔 The library on race relations built up by Sivanandan was, in 2006, moved to the University of Warwick Library, where it is known as the Sivanandan Collection.〔(Ethnicity and Migration Collections, Incorporating the Sivanandan Collection of the Institute of Race Relations and the Collection of the Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations. Warwick, Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations. )〕〔(IRR gifts its library to Warwick University", Institute of Race Relations, 3 May 2006. )〕
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