 She was a winner of the Gratiaen Prize and has received Sri Lanka’s State Literary Award.After graduating from the University of Ceylon, she worked for over thirty years at the Ceylon Daily News, where she was a feature writer, editor of the women’s page and the children’s page.Now she is a correspondent to Women's Feature Service (WFS), a network of women journalists worldwide writing from a woman’s perspective, with offices in New York City, Manila, Rome and Delhi.