The Commonwealth Foundation has announced the regional winners for the 2013 Commonwealth Book Prize and Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Representing Africa, Asia, Canada & Europe, Caribbean, and the Pacific regions, these writers will now compete to become the overall winner, to be announced at Hay Festival UK on 31 May.The Commonwealth Book Prize is awarded for the best first novel, ...
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Nayomi Munaweera is a Sri Lankan-American author. Growing up in Nigeria and California, Nayomi spent months in Sri Lanka witnessing the devastation wrought upon her country of birth by civil war. These experiences led her to write her first novel, Island of a Thousand Mirrors, which was published by Perera Hussein Publishing House in late 2012. The book has ...
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The Gratiaen Prize 1. The Prize will be awarded for the best work of creative writing in English by a Sri Lankan citizen resident in Sri Lanka, published for the first time in 2012 or unpublished and ready for publication at the time of entry. 2. Creative writing eligible for the Prize may include novels, collections of short stories, poetry, drama and ...
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I went in with my eyes wide open, knowing the subject would be dark, unaware of the treatment of it by this woman with a dazzling smile who asked me to review it within an hour of meeting her. Growing up in India, some latitudes north of the Sri Lankan civil war, meant it had remotely touched me as ...
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A beguiling tale of three women swept up in the turbulence of an island’s history, whose fates are intimately woven together. It is a story of war, migration, love, exile and belonging. This beautifully written novel combines harsh reality, tenderness and astonishing insight. In the aftermath of 1983, a Sinhalese family leaves for America. Yasodhara and Lanka adapt to their ...
