Punyakante Wijenaike
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Punyakante Wijenaike (born Colombo, 1933) is a Sri Lankan writer.[1] She spent most of her life in Colombo, where she has published all of her works.
Work
Wijenaike writes primarily in English, including fiction, short stories and anthologies. Her first collection of short stories, The Third Woman, was published in 1963. Since then she has published four collections of short stories and six novels, with more than 100 stories published in newspapers, journals and anthologies in Sri Lanka and abroad, and has had her works broadcast in Sri Lanka and on the BBC.
Her novel Giraya was adapted into a teledrama by Independent Television Network of Sri Lanka.
Awards and recognition
- Women of Achievement Award, 1985
- Kala Suri Class 1 (literary achievement), conferred by the Government of Sri Lanka, 1988
- 1994 Gratiaen Prize for her novel Amulet[2]
- 1996, joint winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Competition for Radio
Ten of her works are held by the U.S. Library of Congress.
Books
Novels
- 1998: An Enemy Within, uncovers
- 2011: Giraya
- Amulet
- The Waiting Earth
- 2010: When Guns Fall Silent
- The Rebel
- 2009: That deep silence
- To Follow the Sun
- Unbinding: A Story of Rebirth and Other Stories
- Anoma
- 1972: The Betel Wine
Short stories
- 2004: Missing in Action;Sunset Years
- 1963: The Third Women
References
- ^ "Punyakante Wijenaike gives tips on short story writing". Sunday Times (Sri Lanka).
- ^ "1994 Winner". Gratiaen Trust. Archived from the original on August 22, 2015.