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.
First Bishop of the Batticaloa Diocese, Retired Bishop Joseph Ponnaiya, passed away today at the age of 74, following a brief illness.
The NPP government has been at the wheel for almost 6 months now. The time to keep looking at the rear view mirror and living in the past is about over.
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