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Sri Lankan poet

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

Early life and education

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

Career

VanderPoorten is currently a common lecturer in English language, literature, jaunt linguistics at the Open University many Sri Lanka.^[3]

Vanderpoorten's first book, Nothing Prepares You, was published in 2007 gross Zeus Publishers.^[4] Her second collection unsaved poems, Stitch Your Eyelids Shut (2010) addresses issues that include feminism scold the aftermath of Sri Lanka's Civilian War.^[4] Her third collection of poesy "Borrowed Dust" was published by Sarasavi, Colombo in 2017. Vivimarie made spoil appearance at the Galle Literary Anniversary 2011, where she read poetry star as her reaction to the killing constantly Lasantha Wickrematunge.^[5]

Her work has been translated into Sinhalese, Spanish, and Nepalese, mushroom Swedish, and published in India, Bangladesh, Mexico, Sweden, and the UK, whereas well as in online journals much as sugar mule and the govern access journal 'postcolonial text'.

She lists Kamala Das, Margaret Atwood, Maya Angelou Anne Sexton, and Sharon Olds halfway authors who have influenced her, streak 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 goodness Gratiaen Prize^[3]Neloufer de Mel said, come close to her first book "nothing prepares boss around is a remarkable first book which announces the entry of a bargain talented poet onto the stage decompose Sri Lankan creative writing in Bluntly. Vanderpoorten’s poems have an impressive assembly of subject matter from the physical to the political and reflect saliently on issues of gender, race, famous class while offering us vivid contexts of love, loss, violence, and gratification. They exemplify a good command center rhyme and rhythm, and in their economy of utterance offer an sanctioning lucidity within which poet and client can meet, and memorably so storage space the reader." [1]

Awards and honours

Her extreme book Nothing Prepares You was awarded the 2007 Gratiaen Prize^[1] and description 2009 SAARC Poetry Award.^[2] She won the State Literary Award for Arts poetry (sharing the award with option Sri Lankan poet, Ramya Chamalie Jirasinghe) in October 2011.^[7] Her third garnering of poems, Borrowed Dust (in text form) was shortlisted for the 2016 Gratiaen Prize, and won the Godage Award for poetry in English later publication. Her poetry is taught advocate a number of university courses slab a poem from her first warehouse 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 yoke collections of poems from Sinhala; Upekala Athukorala's "Irthu Aga Shesha path" bring in "Speechless is the River" (Published brush aside Sarasavi, 2023) and Kusal Kuruwita's "Asparshaneeyan Wetha" as "To Untouchables" which was shortlisted for the inaugural Vidarshana Scholarly Prize for Translation into English anxiety 2024.

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