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  Sonali Deraniyagala: Born in Colombo, studied economics at Cambridge University. She is one of the important faculty of the Department of economics at SOAS University of London. She lives in New York City and London. She married economist Stephen Lissenburgh, while on vacation in December 2004. She lost her husband, two sons, parents, best friend and her best friend’s mother in the Indian Ocean Tsunami. It carried Sonali two miles inland, she was able to survive by clinging to a tree branch.. Her 2013memoir “Wave” relates her terrible experience in the Tsunami. It was shortlisted for 2013 National Book critics Circle Award and won PEN Ackerley prize 2013. She then married to the actress Fiona Shaw. Summary One morning Deraniyagala and her family were on a family holiday to Sri Lanka, at the Yala National park, on the South east coast of Sri Lanka. She saw the rising waves, she grabbed her children and ran with her husband behind the hotel and into a waiting jeep. But ...

Oscar Wilde He was an Irish poet and playwright. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays. His parents were Anglo – Irish in Dublin. He was very fluent in French and German. In 1855 the family moved to No.1 Merrion Square. Until nine Oscar Wilde was educated at home where a French nursemaid and a German governess taught him their languages. Oscar Wilde impressed his peers with his humorous and school stories. His oral translation of Greek and Latin texts won him multiple prizes. He was one of best at Portora to win a Royal school scholarship to Trinity in1871. At Trinity Oscar Wilde established himself as an outstanding student. He won the demy ship, a half – scholarship worth £95(£8,900 today) per year to Magdalen College Oxford. Catholicism deeply impressed him. He was speechless after an audience with pope Pius Ⅸ in Rome. Wilde won the 1878 Newdigate Prize for his work Ravenna (poem). He in mid1881 at 27 years old   published poems which collected revised. On May...

  Tissa Ananda Abeysekara (7 th May 1939 – 18 April 2009) He was a Sri Lankan actor, writer, director, screen play writer, film maker and political activist. His book Bringing Tony Home won the Gratian prize for the new creative writing in English. He was awarded the honorable award of SAARC literary award. He was born in Maharagama a rail road town of southeast of Colombo. He grew up in Havelock town Colombo. Due to poor health Tissa did not attend school until 11 years old. Private classes were conducted to him and he had formal education at Dharampala Vidyalaya in Pannipitiya. He completed his education. He was married to Asanka Monarvilla and they have one Svetlana and one son Dimitra. He died on 18tth April 2009, at Colombo National Hospital after having been admitted for a heart condition. Tissa began his career as a short –story writer writing in Sinhala and published some short stories in the Dinamina and Janatha national newspapers. He was chairman of the National f...