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Personal lifeKusuma Jayasooriya was born on November 21, 1940 at Dickwella, Dodampahala to a business family of Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Jayasooriya. She had her school education at Dodampahala Vidyalaya and then at Vijitha Vidyalaya, Dickwella. She completed her undergraduate education at the University of Ceylon in the Peradeniya campus;[1] there in 1964, she became the first female student in her discipline to earn a First class honours degree from that institution.[3] She later married Samarajeewa Karunaratne, an engineer by profession. They have two sons, Savant Karunaratne and Passant Karunaratne, both electrical engineers specializing in Graphics and Image/Video Processing. The elder, Savant Karunaratne, has a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Sydney, Australia. The younger, Passant Karunaratne, has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Northwestern University, in the United States. Academic careerAn academic career began with her appointment as an assistant lecturer of the Department of Sinhala at the University of Ceylon. In 1967, Mrs. Karunaratne and her husband traveled to the United Kingdom where both furthered their education with post-graduate studies, with her studying Sociology of Literature at the University of Essex.{{Citation needed|date=March 2008}} Later she pursued graduate studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.{{Citation needed|date=March 2008}} She was awarded her doctorate from the University of Colombo. Karunaratne became the first female lecturer in the Sinhala Department at the University of Columbo, and later went on to become the first female Professor of Sinhala and the first woman to head that Department.[3] Professor Karunaratne would later go on to become the Dean and the Acting Vice-Chancellor of the University of Colombo.[3] During her career she has taught Sinhala to many Japanese, including professors and diplomats, thus helping to strengthen the relations between Japan and Sri Lanka. She has translated many English and Japanese novels to Sinhala. Publications
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References1. ^1 "Darling we aren't too old, though we pass the Jubilee Gold: Mathematician + intellectual = love,Sunday Observer, January 7, 2007. 2. ^Tissera-Gunasekara, Manu. "Kusuma Karunaratne: The simple, traditional Sri Lankan lady," Daily Mirror. August 15, 2007. 3. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 Perera, Suharshi. "Woman: An icon in the literary world," {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604141640/http://www.dailynews.lk/2007/08/09/fea12.asp |date=2011-06-04 }} Daily News (Sri Lanka). August 9, 2007. 4. ^Speech at Seminar in Commemoration of Fifty Years of Bilateral Relations between Sri Lanka and Japan," (2002). External links
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