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Gratiaen Prize 2017 shortlist to be announced on April 2
View(s):The shortlist for the Gratiaen Prize 2017 will be announced on Monday April 2 at 6 p.m. at the British Council Library, Colombo. All are invited to attend the announcement and listen to the reading of excerpts from the shortlisted entries.
The Prize is awarded each year to the best submitted creative work in English, written by a Sri Lankan writer resident in Sri Lanka. Both published works and unpublished manuscripts are accepted as submissions.
The judges for the Gratiaen Prize 2017 are: Prof. Carmen Wickramagamage, Professor in English at the University of Peradeniya (chair); Andrew Fowler-Watt, principal of Trinity College Kandy and Michelle de Kretser, renowned Australian author of Sri Lankan origin.
The Gratiaen Prize 2017 is the third to be presented under the Gratiaen Trust’s new partnership with Sarasavi Bookshops who will be sponsoring the main prize awarding event to be held in May.
The shortlisted writers for 2017will learn of their selection for the first time on April 2. Excerpts of the shortlisted works will be read out and the judges will speak about how they chose the shortlist. This event, which is free and open to all, precedes the awarding of the prize to the final winner in May this year.
The collection of manuscripts for the Gratiaen Prize and many administrative activities of the Gratiaen Trust, which administers the prizes, are facilitated by the MARGA Institute which has been supporting the Trust for about 20 years.