Roma Tearne (née Chrysostom; born 1954) is a Sri Lankan-born artist and writer living and working in England.
Tearne moved to South London in 1964 with her Sinhalese mother and Tamil father when she was ten years old.
[1] Tearne attended the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford, (2000-2001) and earned an MA.
[2] In October 2005 she started a three-year post-doctoral AHRC fellowship at Oxford Brookes University.
[1][10] Her fourth novel, The Swimmer, (May 2010)[11] was long-listed for the Orange Prize,[12] while a film based on the narrative was made by Tearne and shown at the Venice Biennale in 2011.