Malinda Seneviratne, the Editor-in-Chief of the Nation newspaper, has won the Gratiaen Prize 2013 for creative writing in English for his collection of poetry titled ‘Edges’.
The Gratiaen Prize, which was instituted by Michael Ondaatje in 1992 with the money he received as joint-winner of the Booker Prize for his novel The English Patient, is awarded annually to the best work of literary writing in English by a resident Sri Lankan.
Malinda’s collection of poetry, according to the organizers of the prize, Gratiaen Trust, “draws from perennial themes such as love and friendship to historically and geographically specific concerns regarding nationhood or identity.”
Malinda’s collection of unpublished poems was shortlisted for the Gratiaen Prize in 2011.
