The Galle Literary Festival came to a close on Sunday, 17 Januar, a relaxed agenda, including a paced-out walk around the Galle Fort with Mrs. Carder marked the end of an action-packed week.
Sessions came to a close with a Literary Lunch at Jetwing Lighthouse hotel. All authors featured in this year’s festival were present at the final day’s lunch which also saw the inauguration of a regional prize for poetry. The Edward Lear Poetry Prize is open to poets of the SAARC nations and is to be announced at the Literary Festival next year.
With the Fairway Galle Lit Fest drawing to a close our photographers captured the following scenes over the last few days of the festival in Galle.
The funeral of arguably the Queen of the Sinhala cinema Malini Fonseka, will be held with state honours on Monday, May 26, 2025, at the Independence Square.
The NPP government has been at the wheel for almost 6 months now. The time to keep looking at the rear view mirror and living in the past is about over.
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