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.
A Sri Lankan man was apprehended at Suvarnabhumi airport for attempting to smuggle wildlife out of the country after three ball pythons were found hidden in his underwear, the Bangkok post reported.
The UK government has unveiled a package of reforms to simplify imports from developing countries which allows for more garments manufactured in Sri Lanka to enter the UK tariff-free.
Read these and more on tomorrow’s edition of the Sunday Times
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