Ramya Jirasinghe

Ramya Jirasinghe was joint runner-up to the UK’s Guardian Orange First Words Prize of 2009 and TimesOnline UK selected her work for its 2009 collection of contemporary war poetry. Her first book of poems, There’s an Island in the Bone, won the Sri Lanka State Literary Joint-Award in 2011. Her collections of poems, Love Poems from a Frangipani Garden (2018) and Requisites (2025), were published in the UK by Mica Press & Campanula Books. Her poetic play, Water for Kings, was staged by Mind Adventures Theatre Company in 2024. Ramya’s debut novel, Father Cabraal’s Recipe for Love Cake, won the Gratiaen Prize in 2024 and was pubsished by Penguin Random House India in 2026.