| 词条 | Vivimarie Vanderpoorten |
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|image = | name = Vivimarie VanderPoorten | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_date = | birth_place = Kandy, Sri Lanka | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Poet, Lecturer in English | period = 2007 to present | genre = poetry | subject = | movement = | notableworks = Nothing Prepares You, Stitch Your Eyelids Shut, "Borrowed Dust" | website = {{URL|vivimariev.blogspot.com}} }}Vivimarie VanderPoorten is a Sri Lankan poet. Her book Nothing Prepares You won the 2007 Gratiaen Prize.[1] She was also awarded the 2009 SAARC Poetry Award in Delhi.[2] Early lifeBorn in Kandy, Sri Lanka of Belgian and Sinhala ancestry, Vanderpoorten grew up in Kurunegala. She holds a PhD from the University of Ulster, UK, and is currently a senior lecturer in English language, literature and linguistics at the Open University of Sri Lanka.[3] InfluencesShe lists Kamala Das, Margaret Atwood, Maya Angelou among authors who have influenced her, and Moshin Hamid, Khaled Hosseini and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie as contemporary writers that she reads.[4] WorksVanderpoorten's first book, Nothing Prepares You, was published in 2007 by Zeus Publishers.[5] Her second collection of poems, Stitch Your Eyelids Shut (2010) addresses issues that include feminism and the aftermath of Sri Lanka's Civil War.[5] Her third collection of poems "Borrowed Dust" was published by Sarasavi, Colombo in 2017. Vivimarie made an appearance at the Galle Literary Festival 2011, where she read poetry about her reaction to the killing of Lasantha Wickrematunge.[6] ReceptionCritical ReceptionHer poetry has been called "gentle, reflective minimalism which touches the soul" by Dr. Sinharaja Tammita-Delgoda, the chairman of the panel of judges who awarded her the Gratiaen Prize[3] Awards and honoursHer first book Nothing Prepares You was awarded the 2007 Gratiaen Prize[1] and the 2009 SAARC Poetry Award.[2] She won the State Literary Award for English poetry (sharing the award with another Sri Lankan poet, Ramya Chamalie Jirasinghe) in October 2011.[7] Her third collection of poems, Borrowed Dust (in manuscript form) was shortlisted for the 2016 Gratiaen Prize TranslationsHer work has been translated into Sinhalese, Spanish and Swedish, and published in India, Bangladesh, Mexico, Sweden and the UK, as well as in online journals such as sugar mule and the open access journal 'postcolonial text'. References1. ^1 The Gratiaen Trust "2007 Winner", accessed January 27, 2011. sundaytimes.lksundaytimes.lkgratiaen.com2. ^1 http://foundationsaarcwriters.com/Detail.aspx?id=FESTIVAL%20OF%20LITERATURE-II&type=FESTIVAL%20OF%20LITERATURE 3. ^1 The Sunday Times "What you see is what you get with Vivimarie", accessed January 27, 2011. 4. ^The Nation "Vivimarie Vanderpoorten - Ode to a free spirit", accessed January 29, 2011. 5. ^1 The Sunday Times "Vivimarie’s power of making the word her own", accessed January 28, 2011. 6. ^BBC News [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12316737 "Sri Lanka literary festival discusses journalist's plight"], accessed January 31, 2011. 7. ^Sunday Leader "Poetry Corner Vivimarie Vander Poorten", accessed September 3, 2016. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/world-south-asia-12316737 bbc.co.uk] {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Vanderpoorten, Vivimarie}} 17 : 21st-century women writers|Academics of the Open University of Sri Lanka|Alumni of Ulster University|Burgher academics|Burgher poets|Burgher writers|Living people|People from Kandy|Sinhalese academics|Sinhalese poets|Sinhalese writers|Sri Lankan people of Belgian descent|Sri Lankan women poets|Sri Lankan women academics|21st-century Sri Lankan writers|21st-century Sri Lankan women writers|Year of birth missing (living people) |
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