GRATIAEN PRIZE 2016 The Gratiaen Prize for the best work of creative writing in English was awarded to Charulatha Abeysekara Thewarathanthri for her unpublished novel ‘Stories’ on Saturday (27) at BMICH, Colombo. This year’s winner emerged from a shortlist lineup which included poetry and prose. Commenting on the judging process, chairperson of the judging panel, Sasanka Perera, commented on the quality and diversity of the submissions and the challenges of judging across different genres of literature The H.A.I. Goonetileke Prize for Translation was awarded at the same event to Aditha Dissanayake for his translation of Batuwangala Rahula Thera’s Ran Karanduwa– translated as ‘Golden Casket’. K.N.O. Dharmadasa, Chair of the judging panel said the translation was able to effectively capture the multi-layered quality of the original. The Gratiaen Prize has an unbroken history of rewarding literary excellence in Sri Lanka for nearly two and a half decades and the main award is sp...