Sri Lankan Playwright Wins Top Prize

0:00Sri Lankan Australian playwright Shakthi just won the top tier Wyndham Campbell Prize for drama, pocketing 175,000 US dollars, or about 250,000 Australian dollars for his full body of work. This international award honors writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama, with secret nominations and no applications allowed, recognizing standout careers like his plays on Tamil Sri Lankan migrant lives. His breakthrough, counting and cracking, co-written with Eman Flack, dies into five decades of family stories, and also grabbed the 100, thousand dollar Victorian prize for literature back in 2020. Shocked these kept the momentum with the jungle and the sea, tackling the Sri Lankan Civil War scars, plus his debut memoir last year, all while, directing his Western Sydney Theatre Company, Karinji. Judges call him a rare voice- bridging time, space, and raw emotions, joining fresh winners like British novelist Gwendolyn Riley and past Aussies, such as Helen Garner Proof bold

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