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Sri Lanka’s Kanya D’Almeida is Asia Winner of 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize Kanya D’Almeida Source:FT The Commonwealth Foundation on Wednesday announced the regional winners of the world’s most global literary prize, with Sri Lankan author Kanya D’Almeida winning the 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize (Asia) for her story, ‘I Cleaned The—’. The 35-year-old author from Sri Lanka fought off competition from a strong field of shortlisted entrants including Indian authors Aravind Jayan, Riddhi Dastidar, Ling Low from Malaysia and Nur Khan from Pakistan to become the Asia winner.  She will go through to the final round of judging and the overall winner will be announced on 30 June. ...