When Sri Lankan author Anuk Arudpragasam recently received the DSC Prize for South Asian literature, the honour shone the international spotlight on the country’s gruesome civil war, yet again. Except ...

Every year, we ‘celebrate’ a Literary month in September. We have an “International Book fair” without any International publishers or even publishers, from the neighbouring countries, participating.

Dr. Harshana Rambukwella, Director, Post Graduate Institute of English, Open University, Sri Lanka and Honorary Assistant Professor, School of English, University of Hong Kong will launch his book ...

The then Minister of State, Anandatissa De Alwis’ address at the Inaugural Presentation of the D.R. Wijewardene Award for Sinhala writing in 1985. I consider this an opportunity to pay the sincerest ...

September is the Literary Month – the month when activities to promote literature and the reading habit are held. The State Literary Festival and the International Book Fair are the two biggest events ...