Lloyd Fernando was born to a Sinhalese family in Sri Lanka in 1926. In 1938, his family migrated
to Singapore. Mr. Fernando was
educated at St Patrick’s in Singapore, with the Japanese occupation
interrupting that education from 1943 to 1945. During the Japanese attack on
Singapore, Mr. Fernando’s father was killed. During the Japanese occupation,
Fernando worked in a variety of manual labor jobs.
Lloyd Fernando
thereafter graduated from the University of Malaya in Singapore, and
subsequently served as an instructor at the Singapore Polytechnic. Lloyd
Fernando became an assistant lecturer at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur in 1960. Mr. Fernando was awarded a
scholarship at Leeds
University, UK where he received his PhD.
In 1967 Fernando was
appointed to serve as a professor at the English Department of the University
of Malaya, where he served until his retirement in 1978. Subsequently, Mr.
Fernando studied law at City University in the United Kingdom and then at
Middle Temple, returning to Malaysia with two law degrees, whereupon he was
employed by a law firm, and thereafter started a separate law practice
business. In 1997, Mr. Fernando had a stroke and ceased his professional
activities.
His work :
- Scorpion Orchid, 1976
- Cultures in Conflict, 1986
- Green is the Colour, 1993
- "New Women" in the Late Victorian Novel, 1977
