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Madol Doova ( Sinhala: මඩොල් දූව is a children's novel and coming-of-age story written by Sri Lankan writer Martin Wickramasinghe and first published in 1947. The book recounts the misadventures of Upali Giniwella and his friends on the Southern coast of Sri Lanka during the 1890s. It later describes the efforts of Upali and his ...
9780345804310. Wave: Life and Memories after the Tsunami is a memoir by the Sri Lankan educator Sonali Deraniyagala about the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. [1] [2] It was first published in 2013 by Alfred A. Knopf. [3] The book recounts the story of Deraniyagala's life before the tsunami struck the coast, and how it changed ...
ISBN 0-88776-735-4 Lambda Literary Award in the Children's and Youth Literature category in 2006; Story-Wallah: Short Fiction from South Asian Writers. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. ISBN 0-618-57680-0 (editor) The Hungry Ghosts. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2013. ISBN 0-3856-7066-4; Many Roads Through Paradise: An Anthology Of Sri Lankan ...
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE; Tamil: தமிழீழ விடுதலைப் புலிகள், romanized: Tamiḻīḻa viṭutalaip pulikaḷ, Sinhala: දෙමළ ඊලාම් විමුක්ති කොටි සංවිධානය, romanized: Demaḷa īlām vimukti koṭi saṁvidhānaya; also known as the Tamil Tigers) was a Tamil militant organization ...
Ravana ( / ˈrɑːvənə /; [1] Sanskrit: रावण, IAST: Rāvaṇa, pronounced [ˈraːʋɐɳɐ]) was a multi-headed rakshasa king [2] of the island of Lanka, and the chief antagonist in the Hindu epic Ramayana. [3] [4] In the Ramayana, Ravana is described as the eldest son of sage Vishrava and Kaikasi.
Shehan Karunatilaka (born 1975) is a Sri Lankan writer. He grew up in Colombo, studied in New Zealand and has lived and worked in London, Amsterdam and Singapore.His 2010 debut novel Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew won the Commonwealth Book Prize, the DSC Prize, the Gratiaen Prize and was adjudged the second greatest cricket book of all time by Wisden.
Kamala Wijeratne. Kamala Wijeratne is an educationist in the field of English, a short story writer, and a poet from Sri Lanka. She has received many awards, including the State Literary Awards and the Sahithya Ratna Lifetime Award, which is the highest honor given to Sri Lankans who have made an outstanding contribution to Sri Lankan literature.
Adam's Peak is a 2,243 m (7,359 ft) tall conical sacred mountain located in central Sri Lanka. [1] [2] It is well known for the Sri Pada ( Śrī Pāda ; Sinhala: ශ්රී පාද, 'sacred footprint'), a 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in) rock formation near the summit whose name is also used for the mountain itself. In Buddhist tradition the print is ...
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