Martin Wickramasinghe’s ancestral home in Koggala, turned into a Museum of Folk Culture stands as an enduring legacy of one of Sri Lanka’s most loved and respected wordsmiths Vasantha Kumara (V.K) ...

By Uditha Devapriya The Martin Wickramasinghe Collection at the National Library in Colombo contains over 5,000 books. Most of them are worn out and dusty, though well preserved. Some are recent ...

The Martin Wickramasinghe Trust has restored the house in Koggala where he was born, now over 250 years old, and the surrounding parkland. Father longed to establish a museum of folk culture. The ...

But Wickramasinghe knew, in a way his nationalist critics – even supporters – did not, that the village could not stand for long. He likened our attempts to reclaim the past to a search for kalunika: ...

Martin Wickramasinghe was born on May 29, 1892. According to the era he lived in, it was surprising that he criticised witchcraft. He believed witchcraft was misleading people.

Martin Wickramasinghe would pass away six years after the Prize Giving, almost 15 years after Fraser’s passing. Fraser’s contribution, and Wickramasinghe’s affirmation of it, underlies a vision of ...