Come Thursday, 20 January , famous British writer Louis De Bernieres will kick start the Galle Literary Festival 2011 with a ‘Lit Talk’ at the Park Street Mews in Colombo.
The evening’s programme will consist of the ‘Lit Talk’ at the Warehouse at 6.30pm followed by a three course dinner at the Restaurant.
Both events are priced individually, with the Talk at Rs 1000/ per entrance ticket and the Dinner at Rs 3500/ per person respectively.
Tickets could be purchased online or at Barefoot and Park Street Mews, Telephone: (011) 2300133.
Travel with Louis de Bernieres through the extraordinary breadth of his novels, from the trials of an Italian officer posted to a Greek island during the 2nd World War to the 1970’s London and wartime Yugoslavia, to life in an English village, to the 1st World war and the trenches of Gallipoli.
Born in London in 1954, Mr. de Bernieres who lives in Norfolk published his first novel ‘ The War of Don Emmanuel’s Nether Parts ‘ in 1990 and was selected by the GRANTA magazine as one of the twenty best of young British novelists in 1993. The novel “Captain Corelli’s Mandolin”( later made into a film which starred Nicholas Cage and Penelope Cruz) won him the Commonwealth Writer’s prize for the best novel in 1994.His sixth novel ‘Birds without wings’ came out in 2004. ‘A Partisan’s Daughter’ published in 2008 was shortlisted for the Costa Novel award that same year. His latest book ‘ Notwithstanding: English Village Stories’ was published in Autumn 2009.
Writing is not his only skill, Mr. Bernieres plays the flute, mandolin, clarinet and guitar. ‘As a writer , de Bernieres is truly international in his scope, inhabiting one country after another with convincing detail & authority’-reports the Guardian.
MLH goes veggie on Poya Days
Maybe some think vegetarianism is a fringe interest, but the reality is that a majority of Sri Lankans are vegetarian or nearly so, and the figure is even higher for many other countries as foreign tourists are overwhelming in MLH.
Generally Indian, Chinese, Middle Eastern, and usually Italian restaurants all offer veggie options.
Mount Lavinia Hotel will go total vegetarian and exceptional vegetarian offerings is no doubt at MLH starting from the Poya day, 19 January, and it is only offered at lunch time for approximately LKR2000.
The Governor’s Restaurant has a generous vegetarian section on their lunch buffet menu. Vegetarians used to having to pick the one veggie item at a restaurant will be overwhelmed with the choices. |
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