Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (born April 21, 1975) is a Canadian-American poet, writer, educator, and social activist. Their writing and performance art focuses on documenting the stories of queer and trans people of color, abuse survivors, mixed-race people and diasporic South Asians and Sri Lankans.
Kamala Wijeratne is an educationist in the field of English, a short story writer, and a poet from Sri Lanka.She has received many awards, including the State Literary Awards and the Sahithya Ratna Lifetime Award, which is the highest honor given to Sri Lankans who have made an outstanding contribution to Sri Lankan literature.
Yasmine Gooneratne (1935 – 15 February 2024) was a Sri Lankan poet, short story writer, university professor and essayist. She was recognised in Sri Lanka, Australia, throughout Europe, and the United States, due to her substantial creative and critical publications in the field of English and post-colonial literature.
He is truly an "original" Sri Lankan poet as he has successfully employed the English language to capture the authentic Sri Lankan experience. His language depicts the exact picture of the rural areas in Sri Lanka and invites the readers to a homely background. [11] Since his death a number of books have been written about his life.
They were : Maha Kavi (North Sri Lanka), Neelaavanan (East Sri Lanka), Murugayyan (North Sri Lanka). Their literary works are available in various sources including digital and printed media. The 1960s also saw a social revolt against the caste system in Jaffna which affected Tamil literature.
Her poetry has been called "gentle, reflective minimalism which touches the soul" by Dr. Sinharaja Tammita-Delgoda, the chairman of the panel of judges who awarded her the Gratiaen Prize [3] Neloufer de Mel said, of her first book "nothing prepares you is a remarkable first book which announces the entry of a very talented poet onto the stage of Sri Lankan creative writing in English.
Honored as the first National Youth Poet Laureate in 2017, the 22-year-old Harvard University graduate has been playing with words since her childhood days in Los Angeles where she was raised by a ...
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. ... Youth sport in Sri Lanka (2 C, 1 P)