Antonythasan Jesuthasan
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Born in 1967 in the village of Allaipiddy on Sri Lanka’s northern island of Velanaitivu, Antonythasan Jesuthasan received local LTTE training as a teenager and took the noms de guerre “Thasan” and “Buckle.” After leaving the militant group, he sought asylum in France, where he began writing under the pseudonym Shobasakthi, publishing the novels Gorilla (2001) and Traitor (2003), both later transla…