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Road to Nandikadal (Sinhala: රණමඟ ඔස්සේ නන්දිකඩාල්, raṇaman̆ga ŏsse nandikaḍāl) is a book about the defeat of the LTTE. It was written by former Major General Kamal Gunaratne. The book was released on 6 September 2016, a day after Gunaratne's retirement.
The State Literary Award is a set of annual literary prizes by the Government of Sri Lanka under several categories. The awards cover fiction , poetry , translations , songs and cover designs. Works from Sinhala , Tamil and English language are reviewed.
Rajavaliya (line of kings) is an ancient chronicle of Sri Lanka. [1] It contains the history of King Vijaya to King Vimaladharmasuriya ΙΙ. It is the only chronicle which contains continuous history of Sri Lanka written in Sinhalese language.
The book starts with Deraniyagala at a beach-side hotel on the Sri Lankan coast with her family. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] She gives the first hint at the impending disaster in the second line of the book, "The ocean looked a little closer to our hotel than usual". [ 9 ]
The ACCIMT was established in 1984 by act of parliament, the Arthur C. Clarke Centre for Modern Technologies Act, No. 30 of 1984.This institution, initially known as Arthur C. Clarke Centre, was renamed as the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies, and re-established in a corporate form in 1994 by the Science And Technology Development Act, No. 11 of 1994. [2]
The idea of a National Library for Sri Lanka initially emerged in the 1950s, with a number of prominent scholars and Commission reports urging the respective national governments to consider the establishment of a national library.
An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon is a book written by the English trader and sailor Robert Knox in 1681. It describes his experiences some years earlier in the Kingdom of Kandy, on the island today known as Sri Lanka. It provides one of the most important contemporary accounts of 17th century Sri Lankan life.
Funny Boy is a coming-of-age novel by Sri Lankan-Canadian author Shyam Selvadurai.First published by McClelland and Stewart in September 1994, the novel won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction and the Books in Canada First Novel Award.