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The Gratiaen Prize 2007	The Gratiaen Prize 2006	The Gratiaen Prize 2005
Winner Vivimarie Vander Poorten 'Nothing Prepares you " Short List Ramya Chamalie Jirasinghe "A Map and a Compass Moon " Chamali Kariyawasam "Sylphlike Ether " Malinda Sumathy "Threads " Sivamohan Sumathy "Like Myth and Mother"	Winners Senaka Abeyratne "3 star K" Isankya Kodittuwakku "The banana tree crisis" Short List Ashok Ferrey "The good little Ceylonese girl" Rita Perera "Coalescing with Omega" Vihanga Perera “The ( IR ) ( AU ) topsy"	Winner Delon Weerasinghe 'Thicker Than Blood" Short List Senaka Abeyratne "Mad People" Dilshara Gomes "Learning to Fly" Madhubashini Ratnayake "Strange Tale of Love" Chelliah Shanmugalingam "The Wait for Eternity"

The Gratiaen Prize 2004	The Gratiaen Prize 2003	The Gratiaen Prize 2002
Winner Jagath Kumarasinghe “Kinder Chetty Street" Short List David Blacker "A Cause Untrue" Neil Fernandopulle "This Side of Serendipity" Pradeep Jeganathan "At the Water’s Edge" Carl Muller "All God’s Children"	Winner Nihal De Silva "Road from Elephant Pass" Short List Afdhel Aziz "China Bay Blues" Mallika Jayasinghe "An Immigrant’s Diary" Sunethra Rajakarunanayake "Sambol +" M. Somasunderam “The Rubaiyat of Macbeth Daggers"	Winner Vijitha Fernando "Out of the Darkness" Short List Sandra Fernando "Candle and other poems" Colpetty People "Ashok Ferry" Rohini Hensman "Playing Lions and Tigers" Lal Medawattegedera “The Window Cleaner’s Soul"

The Gratiaen Prize 2001

The Gratiaen Prize 2000

The Gratiaen Prize 1999

Winners

Elmo Jayawardene
"Sam’s Story"

Sumathi Sivamohan
“In the Shadow of the Gun / The Wicked Witch”

Short List

Madhubashini Ratnayake
"Tales of Shades and Shadow"

A.P.G. Sarathchandra
"Bicycles and Bombs"

Marisa Wickramanayake
"Dreaming in Reality”

Winners

Ruwanthi De Chickera
"Middle of Silence"

Lakshmi De Silva
“Kuveni”

Short List

Jehan Aloysius
"Screaming Minds"

Shehan Karunatilaka
"The Painter"

Eva Ranaweera
"Blissfully”

Winners

Neil Fernandopulle
"Shrapnel"

Viskesa Chandrasekaram
“Forbidden Area”

Short List

Damayanthi Fernando
"Saturn’s Children and Other Stories"

Ameena Hussein
"Fifteen"

Flower Munasinghe
"Divided Loyalty”

Maithri C. White
“Skins”

The Gratiaen Prize 1998	The Gratiaen Prize 1997	The Gratiaen Prize 1996
Winner Jeanne Thwaites "It’s a Sunny Day on the Moon" Short List Premini Amerasinghe "Kaleidoscope" Tissa Devendra "Tales from the Provinces" Ramya Jirasinghe "Forgetting Memories" Fathima Sithy “Title Life"	Winner Gamini Akmeemana "The Mirage" Short List Wilfrid Jayasuriya "Kaleidoscope" Neluka Silva "The Choices We Make" Regi Siriwardena "Among My Souvenirs" J.S. Tissainayagam “Army Ward" Maithrie White “To Hold A Dream”	Winner Tissa Abeysekera "Bringing Tony Home" Short List Sita Kulatunga "The High Chair and Cancer Days" Eva Ranaweera "With Maya" Regi Siriwardena "The Lost Lenore"

The Gratiaen Prize 1995	The Gratiaen Prize 1994	The Gratiaen Prize 1993
Winners Sybil Wettasinghe "The Child in Me" Rajiva Wijesingha “Servants” Short List Annie Amerasinghe "Dona Katherina" James Goonewardene "The Tribal Hangover"	Winner Punyakante Wijenaike "Amulet" Short List Soma Jayakoddy (Translated by Vijita Fernando) "Madara" Eva Ranaweera "What Will You Do Do Do Clara, What Will You Do?" Manel Ranatunga “Saga Indonesia" Regi Siriwardena "The Alms Giving and other Plays"	Winners Carl Muller "The Jam Fruit Tree" Lalitha Withanachchi “Wind Blows Over the Hills” Short List Senaka Abeyratne "Fragments of a Fugue" Ashley Halpe "Homing and other Poems" Sita Kulatunga "Dari the 3rd Wife"