{"id":68049,"date":"2021-07-02T02:24:49","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T02:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=68049"},"modified":"2021-07-02T02:24:49","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T02:24:49","slug":"sri-lankan-author-kanya-dalmeida-wins-2021-commonwealth-short-story-prize-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/sri-lankan-author-kanya-dalmeida-wins-2021-commonwealth-short-story-prize-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan author Kanya D\u2019Almeida wins 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"innerheader\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Sri Lankan author Kanya D\u2019Almeida wins 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-68050\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Sri-Lankan-author-Kanya-DAlmeida-wins-2021-Commonwealth-Short-Story-Prize.jpg\" alt=\"Sri Lankan author Kanya D\u2019Almeida wins 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize\" width=\"320\" height=\"376\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #333300;\">Source:-<a style=\"color: #333300;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.lk\/front-page\/Sri-Lankan-author-Kanya-D-Almeida-wins-2021-Commonwealth-Short-Story-Prize\/44-719851\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.ft.lk<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Winning story about domestic workers speaks of \u2018attempts by the poor and overlooked to voice their feelings\u2019<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Thirty-four-year-old Kanya D\u2019Almeida has been announced as the overall winner of the world\u2019s most global literature prize.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">The Commonwealth Foundation announced D\u2019Almeida\u2019s win in an online award ceremony which featured readings from Zambian<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">author Mubanga Kalimamukwento, Sri Lankan actress Ranmali Mirchandani, British actress Lyndsey Marshal, Jamaican author Kei Miller and Australian actress Francesca Savige.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">D\u2019Almeida, from Colombo, Sri Lanka, was named the winner by British-Jamaican actress Dona Croll who presented the online ceremony. D\u2019Almeida is the first Sri Lankan to win the overall prize and the second to win for the Asia region.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">D\u2019Almeida\u2019s winning story, \u2018I Cleaned The \u2013 \u2019, is a story about \u2018dirty work\u2019: domestic labour, abandonment, romantic encounters behind bathroom doors, and human waste.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">The Asia judge, Bangladeshi writer, translator and editor Khademul Islam, described it as \u201ca life-affirming story of love among the rambutan and clove trees of Sri Lanka \u2013 love for a baby not one\u2019s own, love for a high-spirited elderly woman. Love found not among the stars but in human excrement. Literally. And all the more glorious for it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">An extract from the story was read at the ceremony by Sri Lankan actress and arts professional Ranmali Mirchandani.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Chair of the Judges Zo\u00eb Wicomb said: \u201cCongratulations to Kanya D\u2019Almeida, whose winning story captivated the judges from the outset. In \u2018I Cleaned The \u2013\u2019 the short story form is fully exploited. Set in a Sanctuary for the Forsaken, \u2018a place for people who have no people,\u2019 it brims with humanity, exploring the themes of love and death in an ingenious structure.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">\u201cIn a frame narrative, Ishwan cares for a terminally ill fellow-inmate, and embedded within it is a story she tells her friend about her previous years of caring for a severely debilitated child. The narration is an accomplished interweaving of the two-time frames in which the stories artfully testify to love in its various forms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">\u201cFor all its scatology, its depiction of the unsavoury body in decline, \u2018I Cleaned The \u2013\u2019 deals in delicacy and the forbearance that love bestows. With a title that speaks of the unspoken and the unutterable, as well as attempts by the poor and overlooked to voice their feelings, D\u2019Almeida appeals to both the heart and the mind of the reader in this portrayal of unspeakable injustice.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">The intergovernmental organisation that administers the prize Commonwealth Foundation Director-General Dr. Anne T. Gallagher AO said: \u201cAs we enter the second year of a pandemic marked by the heroism of invisible frontline workers, it seems fitting that the wonderful tale which has won the 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize celebrates a member of this hidden army. Kanya D\u2019Almeida\u2019s story of love and humanity, in the face of loss and grief, is one that speaks to us all.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Kanya D\u2019Almeida said: \u201cWinning the Commonwealth Short Story prize during this moment of global upheaval feels like a tremendous honour and an equally tremendous responsibility. It makes me question what it means to be a writer in these times, times when the human imagination might offer us our best shot at survival. I\u2019ve long felt that fiction is the last \u2018free\u2019 place on earth in which to fully envision (and execute!) radical alternatives to the often dismal systems that govern us.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">\u201cTo have won the prize for a story about two destitute, ageing women in Sri Lanka digging through the debris of their lives in search of a little dignity is more than a blessing \u2013 it\u2019s a firm order from the universe to keep inventing ways for the powerless to gather together, giggle together, and win.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Kanya D\u2019Almeida is a Sri Lankan writer. Her fiction has appeared in Jaggery and The Bangalore Review. She holds an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University\u2019s School of the Arts. She\u2019s working on a book of short stories about women suffering from mental illness. Kanya is the host of \u2018The Darkest Light\u2019, a podcast exploring birth and motherhood in Sri Lanka.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is free to enter and is awarded annually for the best piece of unpublished short fiction from the Commonwealth. It is the only prize in the world where entries can be submitted in Bengali, Chinese, English, French, Greek, Malay, Portuguese, Samoan, Swahili, Tamil, and Turkish.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">The 2021 prize was judged by an international panel of writers, each representing one of the five regions of the Commonwealth, and chaired by South African writer Zo\u00eb Wicomb. The other panellists are Nigerian writer A. Igoni Barrett; Bangladeshi writer, translator and editor Khademul Islam; British poet and fiction writer Keith Jarrett; Jamaican environmental activist, award-winning writer and 2012 Caribbean regional winner Diana McCaulay; and award-winning author and 2016 Pacific regional winner Tina Makereti from New Zealand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">They chose the overall winner from the line-up of regional winners: Africa winner R\u00e9my Ngamije (Namibia), Canada and Europe winner Carol Farrelly (United Kingdom), Caribbean winner Roland Watson-Grant (Jamaica), and Pacific winner Katerina Gibson (Australia). 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