Dr. Sivamohan is a multifaceted individual, serving as an academic, filmmaker, poet, translator, actress, and activist. Born in Jaffna, northern Sri Lanka, she currently holds the position of Professor of English at the University of Peradeniya.
Sumathy Sivamohan's Biography:
Awards and Honors
The Best Film (Jury) prize at the World Indian Film Festival Hyderabad 2018 for the film Sons and Fathers
Teaching Award granted by Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University, March-May 2017
Erasmus Mundus Fellowship Award to be held at Univ. of Edinburgh for one month in 2016-2017
Award granted by GIZ and European Union for film on Music of the minorities. 2016
Guest and Panelist at the Jaipur Literary Festival, Jaipur, India. 2016
Writer in Residence, University of Michigan, February – March, 2013
Honorable Mention Award for feature film Ingirunthu (Here and Now) by Global Film Initiative, USA, 2011
Premchand Memorial Fellowship awarded by Sahithya Akademi (The Board of Arts and Letters) of India for a writer from the SAARC region for 2011-2012
Fellowship at Solomon Asch Centre, University of Pennsylvania, USA, 2005. Presented paper and performed ‘In the Shadow of the Gun’ in collaboration with the Centre and InterArt Theatre group
SSRC Research Fellow for the year 2003-2004 on the theme of Movement and Citizenship; an interactive study and narrative of displacement from the North of Sri Lanka
Writer in Residence at Sanskriti Kendra in New Delhi from Feb. 24th to April 29th, 2002
Gratiaen Trust Award (co-winner) for best literary work in English for the year 2001. Awards given for plays, ‘In the Shadow of the Gun,’ and ‘The Wicked Witch’
Harriet B. Rigas Award for Outstanding Woman in Graduate Studies at the Doctoral Level awarded by the Association for Faculty Women of Washington State University, USA in 1999
Fulbright Junior Scholarship awarded by IIE, USA, to pursue higher studies in the United States, from August 1993-May 1995
Books and Monographs
An Incomplete Sentence: the cinema of Dharmasena Pathiraja. Edited with Robert Cruz and Ashley Ratnavibhushana. Colombo: Netpac, 2009
like myth and mother: a political autobiography in poetry and prose. Colombo, sirahununi, 2008. (ShortListed for the Gratiaen Trust Award)
Thin Veils: In the Shadow of the Gun & Wicked Witch performing act/ivism. ICES, 2003
Militants, Militarism and the crisis of (Tamil) nationalism. Monograph. Marga, 2003
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