Ramya Jirasinghe
Ramya Jirasinghe works in Sri Lanka for an international charity supporting child rights. She is also a published poet and essayist. Ramya studied in London for several years and has an MA in Comparative Literature from SOAS.
Her debut novel, Father Cabraal’s Recipe for Love Cake, explores the complex legacies of colonial exploitation and slavery in a tropical island in the Indian Ocean. Two stories run in parallel, one set in the 21st century, and one in the 17th century, linked by an ancient house and its history. In 2024 this novel won the Gratiaen Prize for Sri Lankan writers, and will be published in the Indian subcontinent in 2026 by Penguin Random House India.