Gratiaen Prize short list to be unveiled at Colomboscope
View(s):The Gratiaen Trust in affiliation with the Standard Chartered Bank will announce the authors shortlisted for the 2012 Gratiaen Prize at Colomboscope on March 22.
This year the Gratiaen Prize, celebrates 20 years. The shortlist announcement will be the inaugural event for Standard Chartered’s festival of literature and arts titled Colomboscope 2013 on March 22 at the Chequerboard, Park Street Mews at 6.15 p.m. The event is open to the public and all are welcome.
The judges for the 2012 Gratiaen Prize are: Jayantha Dhanapala (Chair), a distinguished former career diplomat and currently President of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs; Lynn Ockersz, a senior journalist, poet and lecturer in journalism; and Sumathy Sivamohan, writer, dramatist, filmmaker and academic who is currently head of the Department of English at the University of Peradeniya.
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