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2. State Literary Award - Wikipedia

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   Colombo, Sri Lanka. First awarded. 1959; 65 years ago. ( 1959) Website. www .cultural .gov .lk. The State Literary Award is a set of annual literary prizes by the Government of Sri Lanka under several categories. The awards cover fiction, poetry, translations, songs and cover designs. Works from Sinhala, Tamil and English language are reviewed.

3. Wave (Deraniyagala book) - Wikipedia

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   Wave. (Deraniyagala book) Wave: Life and Memories after the Tsunami is a memoir by the Sri Lankan educator Sonali Deraniyagala about the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. [1][2] It was first published in 2013 by Alfred A. Knopf. [3] The book recounts the story of Deraniyagala's life before the tsunami struck the coast, and how it ...

4. Madol Doova - Wikipedia

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   Madol Doova (Sinhala: මඩොල් දූව is a children's novel and coming-of-age story written by Sri Lankan writer Martin Wickramasinghe and first published in 1947. The book recounts the misadventures of Upali Giniwella and his friends on the Southern coast of Sri Lanka during the 1890s. It later describes the efforts of Upali and his ...

5. Carl Muller - Wikipedia

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   Kala Keerthi Carl Muller (22 October 1935 – 2 December 2019) was an award-winning Sri Lankan writer, poet and journalist best known for his trilogy about Burghers in Sri Lanka: The Jam Fruit Tree, Yakada Yaka and Once Upon A Tender Time. He won Gratiaen Awards for The Jam Fruit Tree in 1993 [1] and a State Literary Award for his historical ...

6. Funny Boy (novel) - Wikipedia

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   0-7710-7951-6. OCLC. 412624251. Funny Boy is a coming-of-age novel by Sri Lankan-Canadian author Shyam Selvadurai. First published by McClelland and Stewart in September 1994, the novel won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction and the Books in Canada First Novel Award. [1]

7. Sybil Wettasinghe - Wikipedia

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   Sybil Wettasinghe. Kala Keerthi Sybil Wettasinghe (Sinhala: සිබිල් වෙත්තසිංහ) (31 October 1927 – 1 July 2020) was a children's book writer and an illustrator in Sri Lanka. [1][2] Considered as the doyen of children's literature in Sri Lanka, Wettasinghe has produced more than 200 children's books which have been ...

8. Sri Lankan literature - Wikipedia

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   Sri Lankan literature. Sri Lankan literature is the literary tradition of Sri Lanka. The largest part of Sri Lankan literature was written in the Sinhala language, but there is a considerable number of works in other languages used in Sri Lanka over the millennia (including Tamil, Pāli, and English). However, the languages used in ancient ...

9. Anuk Arudpragasam - Wikipedia

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   Arudpragasam's second novel, A Passage North (Granta Books), was shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize. [19] The novel is an attempt to come to terms with life in the wake of the devastation of Sri Lanka's 30-year civil war.