About Prof. Kusuma Karunaratne
Professor Kusuma Karunaratne (born November 21, 1940.) was former Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka and is currently a senior lecturer at the Department of Sinhala at the same university. She is renowned for her work in Sinhalese studies, and the strengthening of Japan-Sri Lanka relations.
Karunaratne's brilliance was rewarded, when she became the first female to get a permanent appointment in the staff at the university. Later on, she went on to achieve many more firsts in her field, such as being the first female Professor of Sinhala and the first female Dean in Sri Lanka.
She was recently awarded the Fellowship of the Japan Foundation and later the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, a prestige similar to being Knighted.
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