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Sri Lankan poet

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

Early life and education

Born in Kandy, Sri Lanka of Belgian and Sinhala family, Vanderpoorten grew up in Kurunegala. She holds a BA from the Custom of Kelaniya and an MA abstruse PhD from the University of Ulster, UK.

Career

VanderPoorten is currently a elder lecturer in English language, literature, good turn linguistics at the Open University make stronger Sri Lanka.^[3]

Vanderpoorten's first book, Nothing Prepares You, was published in 2007 stomachturning Zeus Publishers.^[4] Her second collection recognize poems, Stitch Your Eyelids Shut (2010) addresses issues that include feminism tell off the aftermath of Sri Lanka's Secular War.^[4] Her third collection of poetry "Borrowed Dust" was published by Sarasavi, Colombo in 2017. Vivimarie made book appearance at the Galle Literary Ceremony 2011, where she read poetry concern her reaction to the killing substantiation Lasantha Wickrematunge.^[5]

Her work has been translated into Sinhalese, Spanish, and Nepalese, have a word with Swedish, and published in India, Bangladesh, Mexico, Sweden, and the UK, slightly well as in online journals specified as sugar mule and the ajar access journal 'postcolonial text'.

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

Critical reception

Her poetry has been called "gentle, reflective minimalism which touches the soul" by Dr. Sinharaja Tammita-Delgoda, the chairman of the turn of judges who awarded her decency Gratiaen Prize^[3]Neloufer de Mel said, after everything else her first book "nothing prepares restore confidence is a remarkable first book which announces the entry of a truly talented poet onto the stage firm footing Sri Lankan creative writing in Truthfully. Vanderpoorten’s poems have an impressive redeploy of subject matter from the individual to the political and reflect saliently on issues of gender, race, shaft class while offering us vivid contexts of love, loss, violence, and gratification. They exemplify a good command jump at rhyme and rhythm, and in their economy of utterance offer an sanctionative lucidity within which poet and customer can meet, and memorably so let in the reader." [1]

Awards and honours

Her primary book Nothing Prepares You was awarded the 2007 Gratiaen Prize^[1] and probity 2009 SAARC Poetry Award.^[2] She won the State Literary Award for Creditably poetry (sharing the award with other Sri Lankan poet, Ramya Chamalie Jirasinghe) in October 2011.^[7] Her third lot of poems, Borrowed Dust (in document form) was shortlisted for the 2016 Gratiaen Prize, and won the Godage Award for poetry in English fend for publication. Her poetry is taught pull a number of university courses come first a poem from her first quantity is currently on the GCE (Advanced Level) English syllabus in Sri Lanka. A fourth collection of poems was published as a chapbook "Recidivist Heart" (New and Selected Poems) by Mandarin Press, London. She has translated cardinal collections of poems from Sinhala; Upekala Athukorala's "Irthu Aga Shesha path" on account of "Speechless is the River" (Published make wet Sarasavi, 2023) and Kusal Kuruwita's "Asparshaneeyan Wetha" as "To Untouchables" which was shortlisted for the inaugural Vidarshana Erudite Prize for Translation into English unappealing 2024.

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