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In this memoir, Ondaatje, who would go on to win the Booker Prize for his novel “The English Patient,” writes about his return to his native Sri Lanka in the late 1970s.
Their books display inventiveness in form and explore a variety of themes drawing from Buddhist mythology, Sri Lanka’s socio-political history, its civil war and more.
English Writers Collective of Sri Lanka – Literary Competition 2021 Gamini’s ‘The Lucky Charm’ wins the Best Prose award 22 June 2021 12:02 am - 1 - {{hitsCtrl.values.hits}} A A A ...
Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka has won the 2022 Booker Prize for his novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. The £50,000 ($75,752 Cdn) Booker Prize annually recognizes the best original ...
Children look to borrow books from a mobile library run on a motorbike by Mahinda Dasanayaka, in a village in Kegalle district, about 85 kilometers northeast of Sri Lanka's capital, Colombo, on ...
Out of Sri Lanka: Tamil, Sinhala and English Poetry from Sri Lanka and its DiasporasEdited by Vidyan Ravinthiran, Seni Seneviratne, Shash Trevett.Penguin Random House.Pages 424.