Sunday, 10 Sep 2023
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By Vimukthi Sarathchandra
Annie Ernaux becomes the first French Nobel Laureate
Annie Ernaux was in the kitchen listening to the one o’clock news. She turned on the radio because she wanted to know who won the 2022 Nobel Prize. She was particularly interested about Literature category. And it was actually she who was being mentioned as the latest laureate. She confessed her initial feeling to Claire Paetku, correspondent of the Nobel Prize’s Outreach...
Here is a man who lived only five decades (from 1564 to 1616), yet his legacy continues to influence mankind for four centuries. That said, William Shakespeare still dominates the written word of the English language with a metaphorical iron fist. No other writer, let alone a playwright, could get closer to him. If there be one, that would only be a text: the Holy Bible....
The month of literature is gone. The month meant for reading is now upon us. We are on the threshold of the toughest task. Buying a book is easier than reading the same. Sri Lanka solemnised October in 2004 on several grounds. The UNESCO declared the 2003-2013 period as the reading decade. They made it a point that readership must be coached because it is not a natural-...
Sri Lanka’s Revolution 2022 is yet to be well documented. Much is said and written on what led to the Revolution. An unprecedented wealth of information can be gathered to compile a political treatise. Such a treatise would never be an analysis or mere history. It will be the story itself – the cinematic style just as it unfolds today.
The exact meaning of the term ‘...