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: ...

Jayewardene also includes Martin Wickramasinghe. She refers to Anupama Mohan’s point that he “projected on to the rural, the possibility of recovering a subjectivity unsullied by colonial inequities.” ...

He saw the old teacher in the village school in Joe Abeywickrema and enjoyed seeing children watching the filming. “I went back to my school days and felt the child in me,” he said. The book edited by ...

Martin Wickramasinghe’s writing has the ability to capture any frame of mind. ... There’s an interesting story about the Wickramasinghe home-in 1941 the colonial government took over the village of ...

Martin Wickramasinghe was the most popular and the best writer during the previous century. He depicted some actual points in his novels by using characters from his village, Koggala, who were real.

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 ...