Ameena Hussein is a Sri Lankan author and co-founder of the Perera-Hussein Publishing House. Her non-fiction book Chasing Tall Tales and Mystics: Ibn Battuta in Sri Lanka won the State Literary Prize for Humanities (2020), and was shortlisted for the Gratiaen Prize. Her novel The Moon in the Water was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Award and the Dublin IMPAC. She was one of the judges for the 2023 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.

Chasing Tall Tales and Mystics

Ibn Battuta in SriLanka (2020 State Literary Prize for Humanities)

The Moon in the Water

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