About Jude
PROFESSIONAL WRITER
Hi! I’m an author settled in Melbourne with my wife and two sons. I love reading and writing YA fiction, short fiction and Lifestyle Pieces.
Imaginings
Published: 1st August 2016
ISBN: 9780994401540
Number Of Pages: 128
For Ages: 13 – 30 years old
Published: 14th April 2020
BN ID: 9780994401540
Number Of Pages: 283
For Ages: 13 – 30 years old
Wanna Read with Jude
Fiction of this kind is still very rare in Sri Lanka, either in English, Sinhala or Tamil, it is hoped that the author will write more.
Gratien Award winner (Gamini Akmeemana)
‘’‘The Beast’ is Sri Lankan born Jude Perera’s debut novel. While having previous experience in short fiction, lifestyle and travel blogging, his recent YA novel is based entirely in the lush splendour of our very own Horton Plains.’’
Pulse Magazine
‘’Young Adult novel set in Sri Lanka – hunting the yakush’’
Trip Fiction
‘“The Beast” Framed: On Jude Perera’s Work Of Young Adult Fiction.’’
Gratien award winner: Vihanga Perera
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The Accident
A short from 2018
The Honourable Beggar
another blast from the past. Wrote sometime around 2008.
A very long memory
I can feel the goose bumps crawl over my skin like a horde of pins jabbing away at me at the same time. This is real and it feels delicious. I am finally doing it, after almost three decades. Long overdue. The little box shaped boutique book shop looks the same, next...
The Calling
To whom much is given, much will be required (Luke 12:48) – The Bible The meaning is self-evident, and if we push it slightly further it also signifies a stimulus for a career choice or vocation. A higher calling....
The Call of the Cicadas
It used to be music to my ear and soul. It still is, but now it hurts me with sorrow. With long lost memories and people. It’s an elegy for the dead. The silence is too much, the wind equally so. It engulfs me with a loneliness that is damning. I sit on the on the...
The ‘Beast’ goes digital
The Beast It's been a while. It was time to release the 'Beast' in to digital. Some people get warm and fuzzy with a paperback or hardback in their hand, under their pillow or...or on their library shelf. Watching it gather dust and growing old with them. Yet an ever...