BOOK EXCERPT A new book tells the story of Sri Lanka with myths and folklore about demon-king Ravana An excerpt from ‘Ravana’s Lanka: The Landscape of a Lost Kingdom’, by ...

Shehan Karunatilaka says it helps to hide behind characters who are at the extremes. Credit: Getty That said, he’s never spotted an apparition. “According to Sri Lankan folklore you can either ...

Their books display inventiveness in form and explore a variety of themes drawing from Buddhist mythology, Sri Lanka’s socio-political history, its civil war and more.

A consignment of Sri Lankan books from Sri Lanka National Library and Documentation Services Board were officially handed over to the National Library Board of Singapore on 2 April 2025 at the Central ...

Robert Knox, a British sailor held captive in Sri Lanka during the 17th century, wrote about them in his 1681 book, An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon.

Veteran folklorist, lyricist, and scholar Dr. Rohana Beddage launched his latest book, Sinhala PiruluKoshaya, on June 14 at the SunethradeviPirivena, Pepiliyana. This encyclopedia of Sri Lankan pirulu ...

Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka has won this year’s £50,000 prize for a metaphysical thriller about the horrors of civil war. It’s easy to see why the judges liked it, writes Martin ...

Amanda Jayatissa's latest thriller, inspired by tales of Sri Lankan folklore she listened to as a child, takes us back in time to Ceylon in the 1880s in Ceylon where Amara, the daughter of a ...

But this is not the same book. As he edited and revised the text for a wider audience unfamiliar with Sri Lankan politics, mythology and folklore, the edits turned to rewrites.

The Deputy Director of the National Library Board thanked the High Commissioner and the National Library and Documentation Services of Sri Lanka for the handover of the book consignment. Minister of ...

It is 1989. A brutal civil war is tearing Sri Lanka apart. Maali Almeida, the narrator of Shehan Karunatilaka’s remarkable, Booker Prize winning novel, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, is a ...