Recently, when a popular television quiz show asked to name the first Sinhala novelist, the answer was erroneously stated as Simon de Silva, and the novel as ‘Meena’. The host however was doubtful of ...

A debut novel rarely achieves the same excellence as Baththalangunduwa by Manjula Wediwardena. In any language, such first-novels are rare. Still there are many writers who have mesmerised readers ...

Amorphous and ambivalent, the Sinhala middle-class remains undefined and uncharted. It is difficult to pin them down to a particular conception of them. What are their tastes, interests, habits? What ...

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Share this with family and friends Visiting Sri Lankan writer, Mr. Mohan Raj Madawala speaks to SBS Sinhala about his upcoming literary event on his novel 'Nil Katrol' SBS Sinhala Radio Service, on ...