Ambalavaner Sivanandan

Ambalavaner Sivanandan (20 December 1923 – 3 January 2018), commonly referred to as A. Sivanandan or "Siva", was a Sri Lankan Tamil novelist, activist and writer, director of the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), a London-based think tank. 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. Quotes We are here because you were there. Quoted in We're Here Because You Were There: Immigration and the End of Empire (2021) by Ian Patel What Enoch Powell says today, the Conservative Party says tomorrow, and the Labour Party legislates on the day after. Quoted in the House of Commons by Zarah Sultana, 17 November 2025. External links Category:Novelists from Sri Lanka Category:Non-fiction authors from Sri Lanka Category:Political authors Category:Political activists Category:1923 births Category:2018 deaths