“Always the bridesmaid and never the bride” was a comment often made by Ashok Ferrey, the sub-situ occurring not once but four times over as he was shortlisted for Sri Lanka’s most prestigious award for creative writing as follows: Colpetty People–2002, The Good Little Ceylonese Girl -2006, The Professional–written as Saroj Sinnetamby-2012, and The Ceaseless […]
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First of all congratulations to Dr Carmel Miranda for winning the 2020 Gratiaen Prize from among five competitive short listed works, two by well-known authors. This should be Carmel’s first published writing – a novel of 262 pages – hence the congratulations are doubly deserved.
Crossmatch –
Authored by medical doctor Carmel Miranda,
‘Crossmatch’ is a three pronged novel with a medical student’s travails running alongside a murder mystery and a mysterious puzzle about birth. The first two narratives are absorbingly interesting and the kudos due to Carmel are that she weaves them to progress side by side, seamlessly with the medical student vital to the mystery story as it is she who first suspects foul play, both due to her being in the Colombo Hospital where the victim dies and her medical knowledgeability to ask relevant questions and follow leads. Also in typical Sri Lankan fashion the murder mystery unravels due to obliging an aunt to “see my driver’s neph