The 2018 Gratiaen Prize was carried off by Arun Welandawe- Prematilleke, whose play The One Who Loves You So was adjudged for being ‘a consummate work of art in one of the hardest genres to realize success, both on the stage and on the page’.
The Gratiaen prize, founded in 1992 by Michael Ondaatje in memory of his mother Doris Gratiaen, each year recognizes the best work of creative writing in English by a resident of Sri Lanka.
Also awarded this year was the H. A. I. Goonetileke Prize for Translation, won by Prof. Vinnie Vitharana for his translation of the medieval Sinhalese work of poetry the Kav Silumina, ‘the crest gem of poetry’.
Two school girls were killed after the car driven by their father crashed on to a lorry on the southern expressway, a coroner’s court inquiry was told today in Galle.
The Finance Ministry has released full details of the removal of the suspension on Importation of Motor Vehicles.
Speaker Ashoka Ranawala whose educational qualifications have been questioned has decided to step down from the post of Speaker
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