The 2016 Gratiaen Prize winner Charulatha Abeysekera Thewarathanthri will launch her Gratiaen winning novel ‘Stories’ on Saturday, August 5 at Sooriya Village.
Educated at Visakha Vidyalaya, Charulatha obtained a civil engineering degree from the University of Moratuwa but opted to be a teacher. She taught Mathematics and Physics to London A’L students, first at the British School in Colombo before moving to S. Thomas College Mount Lavinia.
Today she is a happy homemaker and mother of four engaging in her favourite pastime- writing.
Her first mansuscript Autum Leaves was shortlised for the Gratiaen Prize in 2011.
Tamar Amitai, a 25-year-old Israeli tourist who went missing in Uppuveli, Trincomalee, was found safe after a three-day joint search operation today.
The Colombo High Court today (28) sentenced former parliamentarian Hirunika Premachandra to three years of Rigorous Imprisonment over charges of the involvement of an abduction.
In his special statement, President Ranil Wickremesinghe announced that debt restructuring agreements will postpone all bilateral loan payments to foreign countries until 2028. Additionally, Sri Lanka will have until 2043 to repay these loans on concessional terms.
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