Professor J. B. Dissanayake, the well-known scholar and author, will be honoured with the launch of a festschrift that celebrates his immense contributions to Sinhala language, culture, and literature ...

Priyangwada Perera we meet at the Sarasavi bookshop in Maharagama, surrounded by words which is her element. This year’s winner of the H. A. I. Goonetileke Prize for Translation (a.k.a. the ‘HAIG’), ...

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In around 1954, Radio Ceylon, in its Sinhala broadcast, serialised Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment. I was a nine-year-old at the time. The reading of a translation of Dostoyevsky’s classic, partly ...

Clearing shelves in a small section of my extensive library, I found quite a few that I had not read, placed there when I was tidying up the books in the main library. I had put them in a new place to ...