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Fairway National Literary Award shortlist released
The shortlisted entries for the Fairway National Literary Award 2016 were announced on Friday at a press conference held in Colombo. The inaugural Fairway National Literary Award was initiated by Fairway Holdings to encourage writers from Sri Lanka and will recognise the best novels in English, Sinhala and Tamil languages published in 2014/15.
The five shortlisted works in the English category were chosen from 16 entries submitted in the category. The shortlisted works are ‘Strange Fruit’ by Afdhel Aziz, ‘It’s not in the stars’ by Rizvina Morseth de Alwis, ‘The King and the Assassin’ by Visakesa Chandrasekaram, ‘Sinhala Only’ by Manuka Wijesinghe and ‘Rails Run Parallel’ by Ayathurai Santhan.
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