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Chiranthi and Yudhanjaya: Two winners for Gratiaen Prize
View(s):There were two winners for the Gratiaen Prize for English writing in Sri Lanka for 2022: Chiranthi Rajapakse for her collection of short stories Keeping Time and Yudhanjaya Wijeratne for his science fiction novel The Wretched and the Damned.
The prize, established in 1992 with the Booker prize money won by Michael Ondaatje for his novel The English Patient, is now in its thirtieth year. At a keystone event held at Westminster House, the two winners were felicitated along with the other two shortlisted writers.
This year’s chair of the jury was Romesh Gunesekera while Kaushalya Perera and Sukanya Wignaraja made up the panel.
This year the tenth H A I Goonetilleke Prize for translation was also awarded- to Jewels, a collection of 14 short stories translated from the Sinhala by Manel Eriyagama.
Joint winners: Yudhanjaya Wijeratne and Chiranthi Rajapakse. Pic by M.A. Pushpa Kumara
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