‘Salman Rushdie is not coming, sir. Don’t worry, there is no problems!” He was only half-right, the young rickshaw driver guiding me through the crowded streets of the north Indian city of Jaipur. I was there in late January for the Jaipur Literary Festival, a rollicking five-day event that has been billed “the greatest literary show on Earth,” and with ...
Monday, January 13, 2014 (All day) Features The DSC GRAMMAR Ruwini Jayawardana First it was Shehan Karunatilaka who bagged the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature with ‘Chinaman’. Now yet another Sri Lankan writer, Nayomi Munaweera is in the limelight with her novel ‘Island of a Thousand Mirrors’ which has been shortlisted for the 2014 DSC Prize. The book ...
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot. – D. H. Lawrence Sex. You think about it, dream about it, watch it, do it, wish you were doing it, wish you weren’t, but you’d rather not write it, because it’s not respectable. Because you’re ...
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Tibor Jones South Asia Prize London, August 3rd, 2011– Following the success of the Tibor Jones Pageturner Prize at the 2011 London Book Fair, Tibor Jones & Associates, in association with the Charles Pick Fellowship and the University of East Anglia (UEA) and with support from the British Council, announce the inaugural Tibor Jones South Asia Prize for the best ...
The Lament of the Dhobi Woman by Karen Roberts In the Same Boat by Channa Wickremesekere Chilli, Chicks and Heart Attacks by Sanjaya Senanayake Filed under: Uncategorized
A poetic voice that has been always a quiet and thoughtful one, recording brief and witty, carefully crafted impressions of life as she lived it… Yasmine Gooneratne He built us a house on a mean strip of querulous land. In … Continue reading →
You loved her first book Island of a Thousand Mirrors. Now in her second book, Nayomi Munaweera explores a dark subject with sensitivity and style. What Lies Between Us is available at a 20% discount at the Colombo Book Fair which ends on Sunday the 30th of September.
Estuary, by Australian author Sam Bunny, is a tale of people living in the shadow of war. It is an ambitious story that spans two generations and moves between Melbourne, Sri Lanka and Vietnam. It is the story of Mac, whose father is killed in Vietnam War just days after his birth, and who is abandoned by his mother. ...
Perera Hussein Publishing House is seeking manuscripts for children of all ages with a view to publication. We would like the stories to have a Sri Lankan point of view, to include humour and avoid being didactic and preachy. If you have a manuscript that you think would be ideal for children we would love to have a look ...
Pathways to the Peak: Remarkable Stories of Pioneering Sri Lankan Women is a compilation of 14 short, insightful biographies – each profiling a visionary Sri Lankan woman. This unique book was published last year by the Bay Owl Press, an imprint of the Perera Hussein Publishing House. With generous sponsorship of costs of the book by Finlays Colombo PLC ...
