Kumar launches ‘The Bonsoir Diaries’
View(s):Kumar de Silva recently launched his story – The Bonsoir Diaries’ – as part of the month long French Spring Festival 2013 hosted by the Alliance Francaise in Sri Lanka and the Embassy of France.
A Samaranayake publication, this book is a cocktail of explosive chapters, bursting at their seams, and, revealing everything you never saw on your favourite television show … from the 80s … through the 90s … into 2000.
The Bonsoir French Television Programme presented by the Embassy of France in Sri Lanka enthralled Sri Lankan television audiences since July 1985. It ran for twenty-five years and finally wound up in December 2010, leaving an indelible memory with the thousands who grew up with it.
“No one who has watched this ground-breaking television programme on ITN will ever forget it. It excelled in visual profiles and was packed with news, views, music, biographies, all of which linked two countries – France and Sri Lanka – in electric matrimony”, says Dr. Lester James Peries
Kumar de Silva (www.kumardesilva.com) was decorated ‘Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters’ by the Government of France in October last year, in recognition of his significant contribution to promoting French culture and communication in Sri Lanka for more than a quarter of a century.
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