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 ...

His writings offer clues as well. As useful as the articles and books he wrote, however, are the articles and books he read. The Martin Wickramasinghe Collection at the National Library, which ...

Martin Wickramasinghe in his novel “Gamperaliya” describes how the children play one of the most popular traditional games, ... The Sinhala and Tamil New Year continues to be a celebration of ...

Among these writers, Martin Wickramasinghe (1890–1976), a renowned author and journalist, stood out. Wickramasinghe emphasized the importance of modernizing the Sinhala language to make it suitable ...

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 ...

News News: George R.R. Martin planned Jon Snow's true parentage long ago. The popular 'R+L=J' theory was confirmed in 'Game of Thrones'. Fans are now curious abo ...

Martin Wickramasinghe was born on May 29, 1890, at village headman’s house which was then known as Ginpathaliye Opisara Gedara. Opisara is the Sinhala word for officer, a man respected by the ...

Dinamina played a crucial role in bringing formal short stories with Western literary characteristics to its pages, publishing Martin Wickramasinghe’s first short story, Abirahasa (The Secret), in ...

(JTA) – The death of Martin Amis, the prolific British author, came just as a film adaptation of one of his Holocaust novels premiered to rave reviews at the Cannes Film Festival.

Martin Amis died Friday at his home in Lake Worth, Florida, the New York Times reported earlier, quoting his wife, Isabel Fonseca. Martin Amis, a British writer of dark comedic novels, has died at ...