sentences:  His poetic history of the Sri Lankan Civil War, Uncivil War, was published in 2013.Amirthanayagam read in the international poetry festivals in London (1996), San Salvador (2005), Rosario (2005) Medellin (2010), Lima(2012), Granada, Nicaragua (2009 and 2014,), Santo Domingo (2015), Honduras (2019).Amirthanayagam's "The Elephants Of Reckoning" won the 1994 Paterson Poetry Prize.