The State Literary Festival 2020 has awarded the Prize for the Best Translation (Novel) from Sinhala to English to Madhubhashini Disanayaka Ratnayake, for her work The Sowing Festival, the translation of Somaratne Balasuriya’s novel Wap Magula.
She is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Language Teaching, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura.