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SinhaRaja Tammita-Delgoda. Vivimarie VanderPoorten is a Sri Lankan poet.

Vivimarie VanderPoorten is a Sri Lankan poet writing in English, whose first book Nothing Prepares You won the Gratiaen Award.

She is of Belgian and Sinhala ancestry and grew up in Kurunegala. Born a Christian, Vivimarie embraced Buddhism when she was She won the Gratiaen Prize. Vanderpoorten, exposed to both the traditional and western, negotiates both worlds, and is privy to both worldviews. Yet it is this unique perspective which perhaps provides Vanderpoorten with a distinct vantage point to reflect on life and reality.

With humour, and flashes of raw vulnerability, she achieves what all poets set out to do - she shreds the frail curtains that separate my pain from your pain, my joy from yours, you from me. In the lines between, we are all, together, inescapably human. Vivimarie could never be accused of being. She resists categorization. Sri Lankan writing in English started in the early twentieth century and the insurgencies and ethnic riots provided bread and butter for the thematic concerns of the poetry.

The war gripped Sri Lankans for about 30 years has been a subject matter for many poets like Vanderpoorten in writing poetry. As a well-versed educationist in Sri Lanka she provides her valuable knowledge to the students who strive to thrive in the field of English in the country.

Vivimarie VanderPoorten is a Sri Lankan poet.

Her service is necessary and should be given more recognition as the number of writers in English in Sri Lanka is handful and reducing in numbers. May she gain strength and health to provide her paramount service to the country and the world. Sylvia Plath was an American novelist and poet.