Background
Kusuma Jayasooriya was born on November 21 in 1940 at Dickwella, Dodampahala to a business family of Mr. and Mistress D. E. Jayasooriya.
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Kusuma Karunaratne
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She completed her undergraduate education at the University of Ceylon in the Peradeniya campus. There in 1964, she became the first female student in her discipline to earn a First class honours degree from that institution. The elder, Savant Karunaratne has a Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Sydney, Australia.
Career
An academic career began with her appointment as an assistant lecturer of the Department of Sinhala at the University of Ceylon. Later she pursued graduate studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. She was awarded her doctorate from the University of Colombo.
Karunaratne became the first female lecturer in Sinhala Department at the University of Columbo, and she was to be the first female Professor of Sinhala and the first woman to head that Department.
Professor Karunaratne would later go on to become the Dean and the Acting Vice-Chancellor of the University of Colombo. During her career she had taught Sinhala to many Japanese, including professors and diplomats, thus helping to strengthen the relations between Japan and Sri Lanka.
She had translated many English and Japanese novels to Sinhala.
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