Gill Westaway - Chairperson
Gill has lived in Sri Lanka since September 2006. As Director of the British Council until August 2010 she espoused the cause of promoting Sri Lankan creative writing in English with enthusiasm and interacted closely with a wide range of Sri Lankan authors as supporter, editor, critic and performance reader. When she decided to stay on in Sri Lanka she remained very much involved in the literary scene and has continued to take a keen interest in the creative agenda more generally and in Sri Lankan literature in English in particular. A graduate in Modern Languages, and with a Masters in Language and Literature in Education, she is an avid reader of a wide variety of literary genres and has a background in literary criticism.
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Harshana Rambukwella
Harshana Rambukwella is a Senior Lecturer at the Postgraduate
Institute of English, The Open University of Sri Lanka and Honorary
Assistant Professor at the School of English, University of Hong Kong.
He completed his doctoral research at the School of English,
University of Hong Kong on narratives of nationalism in Sri Lanka and
their representation in historical and literary texts. He is also the
General Editor of the Hong Kong English Literature Database. He has
published in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, The Sri Lanka
Journal of the Humanities, The Literary Encyclopedia, The
Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Fiction and the
Routledge Handbook of World Englishes. His primary research interests
are in postcolonial literatures and theory, representations of
nationalism in the South Asian context and the role of historical
narratives and historiography in community identity.
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Delon Weerasinghe
A filmmaker by profession, Delon Weerasinghe has written professionally for the stage, print, screen, web and radio. Best known perhaps as a playwright, his play Thicker than Blood won the 2005 Gratiaen Prize. The play has been performed internationally and Delon has gone on to write commissioned work for The Royal Court Theatre in London and BBC World Service Radio. Since 2004, Delon has also been responsible for the creation and management of WriteClique.net, the British Council’s writing website. The site has served as a valuable portal to showcase original Sri Lankan writing in English. He is currently writing a book of philosophical comedy satire that should come out later this year, and his first feature film, which he hopes to start filming in 2013.
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