Madhubhashini Manjarika Kumari DISANAYAKA

1996
  • Asia
  • Southern Asia
  • Sri Lanka
English

Madhubhashini Manjarika Kumari DISANAYAKA is lecturer in English at the University of Colombo and a freelance journalist for the Sunday Times. She has also served as a script writer for the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation, is a violinist with the Symphony Orchestra of Sri Lanka, and has performed the sitar on Sri Lanka's national television. Her short story collection Driftwood was named the best collection of short stories (in manuscript) by the National Arts Council of Sri Lanka in 1990. She has been active in introducing Sinhala writers to the English language-reading public through her weekly column. She is a grantee of the USIA.

Happening Now

  • We regret the passing, on April 11, 2024, of the distinguished Romanian author and critic Dan Cristea, who served as the editor in chief of the Luceafărul de Dimineață cultural monthly. In addition to being an alum of the 1985 Fall Residency, Cristea received his PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa.

  • Our congratulations to 1986 Fall Residency writer Kwame Dawes, who has been named the new poet laureate of Jamaica.

  • Congratulations to our colleagues Jennifer Croft and Aron Aji, who are among those serving as judges for the National Book Awards this year, in their case in the category of translated literature.

  • Ranjit Hoskote’s speech at the 2024 Goa Literary Festival addresses the current situation in Gaza.

  • In NY Times, Bina Shah worries about the state of Pakistani—and American—democracy.

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