Chitra Fernando (1935–1998) was a writer of short stories and children's literature from Sri Lanka.
Her university teachers included Professor E. F. C. Ludowyk, Dr H. A. Passe, Doric de Souza and Robin Mayhead.
[2] From May 1958 to April 1960 Fernando taught English at Visakha Vidyalaya, but resigned in 1960 to join the staff of the University of Ceylon at Peradeniya as a temporary assistant lecturer in the Literature Department.
[1] Her two main academic studies were "English and Sinhala Bilingualism in Sri Lanka" (1977) and "Towards a Definition of Idiom, its Nature and Function" (1978).
[1] Between Worlds, in looking at East-West tensions and individual and national identity, "focuses on the traditional woman, the rebel, and the young Asian who has migrated to the West," with a modernized, westernized outlook.