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The State Literary Award is a set of annual literary prizes by the Government of Sri Lanka under several categories. The awards cover fiction, poetry, translations, songs and cover designs. Works from Sinhala, Tamil and English language are reviewed. [1]
This is a list of prizes, medals and awards including cups, trophies, bowls, badges, state decorations etc., awarded in Sri Lanka This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
It was founded in 1992 by the Sri Lankan-born Canadian novelist Michael Ondaatje with the money he received as joint-winner of the Booker Prize for his novel The English Patient. [1] The prize is named after Ondaatje's mother, Doris Gratiaen. Administered by the Gratiaen Trust based in Sri Lanka, the Gratiaen Prize accepts printed books and ...
The 47-year-old follows Sri Lankan-born Michael Ondaatje who won the prize in 1992 for The English Patient.
Gratiaen Prize; H. H. A. I. Goonetileke Prize; S. State Literary Award (Sri Lanka) This page was last edited on 29 July 2011, at 22:05 (UTC). ...
Shehan Karunatilaka (born 1975) is a Sri Lankan writer. He grew up in Colombo, studied in New Zealand and has lived and worked in London, Amsterdam and Singapore.His 2010 debut novel Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew won the Commonwealth Book Prize, the DSC Prize, the Gratiaen Prize and was adjudged the second greatest cricket book of all time by Wisden.
German Book Prize – for the best German language novel of the year; Leipzig Book Fair Prize – in three categories: fiction, non-fiction, and translation; Ingeborg Bachmann Prize; Aspekte-Literaturpreis (Aspekte Literature Prize) – for the best debut novel written in German; Kleist Prize – first awarded in 1912
Wikipedia categories named after Sri Lankan awards (3 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Sri Lankan awards" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.