The Gratiaen Prize 2013 winner to be announced today
Saturday, 24 May 2014 00:00
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The winner of The Gratiaen Prize 2013 will be announced at a final awards ceremony today, 24 May.
The Gratiaen Prize, presented in affiliation with Standard Chartered Bank, 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 Both published works and unpublished manuscripts may be submitted.
This year the shortlist was made up exclusively of poetry and the shortlisted works for the Gratiaen Prize 2013 are:
‘This Nothingness’ – a collection of poetry, in manuscript form, by Inosha Ijaz
‘A Patchwork Soul’ – also poetry, in manuscript form, by Chamali Kariyawasam
‘Edges’ – a collection of poems, published by Fast Publishers, by Malinda Seneviratne
The judging panel for the Gratiaen Prize 2013 comprised Tissa Devendra (Chair), Dr. Shavrika Damunupola Amarasekera and Vijay Kumar Nagaraj.
The Gratiaen Prize, founded in 1993 by the Sri Lankan-born writer Michael Ondaatje, turns 21 this year.
The shortlist announcement took place on Monday 7 April, hosted by the British Council, as this event has been since the inception of the Prize.
