Kamala
Wijeratne was
awarded the Sahitya Ratna, Life Time Award- which is given to a writer once in
a lifetime for her contribution to literature, in Sri Lanka. Previously she has
received awards from the state for her poetry (2004) as well as for her short
fiction (2013,2015) besides the Godage Prize (a prestigious publishing House in
Sri Lanka) for her short fiction (2013 and 2015) and her poetry (2017). She is
a well-known educationist, teacher trainer and curriculum designer. She has
eleven volumes of poetry to her credit. In 2019 she ventured to write her first
novel.