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'''Dominic Jeeva''' was a prominent minority ] author and literary figure from ]. He was a member of the marginalized ] caste. '''Dominic Jeeva''' was a prominent minority ] author and literary figure from ]. He was a member of the marginalized ] caste.


==Biography== ==Biography==
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Dominic Jeeva edits a monthly ] on ] for more than four decades called <b><i>Mallikai<i><b> and also the publisher of many books, an author of many books and a writer of short stories. Dominic Jeeva edits a monthly ] on ] for more than four decades called <b><i>Mallikai<i><b> and also the publisher of many books, an author of many books and a writer of short stories.
Though he cannot boast of an academic background, he made his way to be one of the top most writers in the]world. ] in ], established himself from his battered experiences an, "unacknowledged professor"]] Though he cannot boast of an academic background, he made his way to be one of the top most writers in the]world. ] in ], established himself from his battered experiences an, "unacknowledged professor"]]

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Dominic Jeeva

Dominic Jeeva was a prominent minority Sri Lankan Tamil author and literary figure from Sri Lanka. He was a member of the marginalized Dalit caste.

Biography

Dominic Jeeva edits a monthly journal on literature for more than four decades called Mallikai and also the publisher of many books, an author of many books and a writer of short stories.

Though he cannot boast of an academic background, he made his way to be one of the top most writers in theTamil world.

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Dominic Jeeva, coming from a then downtrodden caste in Jaffna, established himself from his battered experiences an, "unacknowledged professor"

Early Life

Coming from a then downtrodden caste in Jaffna, he established himself as a person to be emulated. His search for knowledge and his battered experiences have made him a man of real stuff an, ' unacknowledged professor ' taking into account some of his ideas found in many of his works.

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Dominic Jeeva, the recipient of the first Sri Lankan Sahitiya Academy Award for Tamil fiction in 1964

Awards

The writer Dominic Jeeva had totally forgotten once, that he came to be known to the non-Tamil speaking readers through a review of his book Pathukai, a collection of short stories, which won the first Sri Lankan Sahitiya Academy Award for Tamil fiction in 1964.

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