Await Gratiaen winners
View(s):The winners of the Gratiaen Prize 2020 and the HAI Goonethilake Prize for Translation will be announced on July 2 at an online event live-streamed at 7 p.m. on the Facebook page of the Gratiaen Trust.
On the Gratiaen Prize shortlist for 2020, which was announced on April 5, 2021 are: Ameena Hussein for ‘Chasing Tall Tales and Mystics: Ibn Batuta in Sri Lanka’–a creative telling of the journeys of Ibn Batuta; Carmel Miranda for ‘Crosswatch’ –a medical mystery novel; Jehan Aloysius for ‘Mind Games’–a dramatic script; Lal Medawattegedara for ‘Restless Rust’ –a novel in manuscript form; and Ciara Mandulee Mendis for ‘Red Brick Walls’– a collection of short stories in manuscript form.
The judging panel is chaired by Mahendran Thiruvarangan, senior lecturer in English Literature at the University of Jaffna and an active arts and political commentator along with well-known creative writer Ashok Ferrey and Victoria Walker, a former diplomat, currently a volunteer for Sri Lanka’s Design for Sustainable Development Foundation.