Premchand Fellowship for Sri Lankan writer

Poet and author Sumathy Sivamohan is awarded the prestigious Premchand Fellowship 2011 by the National Academy of letters, India (Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, India).

Sahitya Akademi has instituted the Fellowship in the name of the great Indian writer on the occasion of the 125th birth anniversary to be annually offered to persons of eminence in the field of culture and literature from SAARC countries. The fellowship period is three months and the recipient will be the guest of Sahitya Akademi during the period, states an Indian Cultural Centre press release.

Sahitya Akademi decided to offer its Premchand Fellowship to Prof. Sumathy Sivamohan in view of her eminence in the field of literature and culture. Prof. Sumathy Sivamohan holds a Doctorate from the Washington State University, USA. She has authored Thin Veils: In the Shadow of the Gun and Wicked Witch Performing Act/ivism (2003), Militants, Militarism and the Crisis of (Tamil) Nationalism. Monograph, Marga (2003), like Myth and Mother: a Political Autobiography in Poetry and Prose. Colombo, Sirahununi (2008).