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Hugh Nevill was born on 19 June 1847, and came to Ceylon, as it was then called, at the age of seventeen as Private Secretary to the Chief Justice. [1] Subsequently, he was a Writer in the Ceylon Civil Service, 1869; Commissioner of Requests, Colombo, 1879; District Judge, Matara, 1885; Fiscal for the Central Province, 1886; Assistant to the Government Agent, Trincomalee, 1891 and District ...
He is the author of seven novels, five of which have been nominated for the Gratiaen Prize, Sri Lanka's literary award, founded by Michael Ondaatje. His latest novel, The Unmarriageable Man [ 5 ] won the Gratiaen Prize in 2021.
Collection; Items collected: Books, magazines, pictures, photographs, maps, sheet music, manuscripts: Size ~ 1 million volumes: Criteria for collection: Publications made available to the Sri Lankan public: Legal deposit: Digital and hard-copy Sri Lankan published materials: Other information; Parent organization: National Library and ...
University of Colombo e-Repository is a collection of scientific research publications by researchers at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. This e-Repository serves to manage, preserve and make available the academic works of the faculty, postgraduate students, and research groups.
An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon is a book written by the English trader and sailor Robert Knox in 1681. It describes his experiences some years earlier in the Kingdom of Kandy, on the island today known as Sri Lanka. It provides one of the most important contemporary accounts of 17th century Sri Lankan life.
She in collaboration with her husband Ronald Lewcock and Laki Senanayake co-authored a book titled The Architecture of an Island (1998) which is a collection of sketches depicting religious, domestic and public buildings of Sri Lanka. [22] She published her first book on children's genre titled Miss Fu and Tikkiri Banda in 2002. [23] She ...
It is the second largest palm-leaf manuscript collection in Sri Lanka. Collection of microfilms of rare materials (approximately 17,000 items) Collection of stamps of the world prepared by the journalist and writer Carl A. Muller. [5] Bound periodical collection (7,000 titles)