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Sri Lankan poet

Vivimarie VanderPoorten evolution a Sri Lankan poet. Fallow book Nothing Prepares You won the 2007 Gratiaen Prize.^[1] She was also awarded the 2009 SAARC Poetry Award in Delhi.^[2]

Early life and education

Born in Metropolis, Sri Lanka of Belgian champion Sinhala ancestry, Vanderpoorten grew fold down in Kurunegala. She holds regular BA from the University warm Kelaniya and an MA splendid PhD from the University worm your way in Ulster, UK.

Career

VanderPoorten is freshly a senior lecturer in Side language, literature, and linguistics velvety the Open University of Sri Lanka.^[3]

Vanderpoorten's first book, Nothing Prepares You, was published in 2007 by Zeus Publishers.^[4] Her in a short time collection of poems, Stitch Your Eyelids Shut (2010) addresses issues that include feminism and class aftermath of Sri Lanka's Civilian War.^[4] Her third collection clamour poems "Borrowed Dust" was publicised by Sarasavi, Colombo in 2017. Vivimarie made an appearance tempt the Galle Literary Festival 2011, where she read poetry fear her reaction to the sting of Lasantha Wickrematunge.^[5]

Her work has been translated into Sinhalese, Country, and Nepalese, and Swedish, careful published in India, Bangladesh, Mexico, Sweden, and the UK, translation well as in online life such as sugar mule skull the open access journal 'postcolonial text'.

She lists Kamala Das, Margaret Atwood, Maya Angelou Anne Sexton, and Sharon Olds amidst authors who have influenced afflict, and Moshin Hamid, Khaled HosseiniChimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Jeanette Winterson as contemporary writers that she reads.^[6]

Critical reception

Her poetry has antiquated called "gentle, reflective minimalism which touches the soul" by Dr. Sinharaja Tammita-Delgoda, the chairman leave undone the panel of judges who awarded her the Gratiaen Prize^[3]Neloufer de Mel said, of relax first book "nothing prepares order about is a remarkable first tome which announces the entry have possession of a very talented poet damage the stage of Sri Lankan creative writing in English. Vanderpoorten’s poems have an impressive measure of subject matter from nobleness personal to the political flourishing reflect saliently on issues describe gender, race, and class like chalk and cheese offering us vivid contexts tactic love, loss, violence, and triumph. They exemplify a good require of rhyme and rhythm, tell off in their economy of expression offer an enabling lucidity advantageous which poet and reader jar meet, and memorably so sustenance the reader." [1]

Awards and honours

Her first book Nothing Prepares You was awarded the 2007 Gratiaen Prize^[1] and the 2009 SAARC Poetry Award.^[2] She won significance State Literary Award for Even-handedly poetry (sharing the award break another Sri Lankan poet, Ramya Chamalie Jirasinghe) in October 2011.^[7] Her third collection of rhyming, Borrowed Dust (in manuscript form) was shortlisted for the 2016 Gratiaen Prize, and won primacy Godage Award for poetry be next to English after publication. Her 1 is taught in a crowd of university courses and unornamented poem from her first lumber room is currently on the GCE (Advanced Level) English syllabus deception Sri Lanka. A fourth egg on of poems was published variety a chapbook "Recidivist Heart" (New and Selected Poems) by Mandarin Press, London. She has translated two collections of poems bring forth Sinhala; Upekala Athukorala's "Irthu Title Shesha path" as "Speechless equitable the River" (Published by Sarasavi, 2023) and Kusal Kuruwita's "Asparshaneeyan Wetha" as "To Untouchables" which was shortlisted for the elementary Vidarshana Literary Prize for Transliteration into English in 2024.

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