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Malini Govinnage no more Source:Dailynews Former Deputy Editor of the Daily News, veteran journalist and author Malini Govinnage passed away yesterday. Govinnage was widely known as a bilingual translator of Sinhalese and English literary works. Her English medium contributions appeared in various forms such as book reviews in the Daily News. Be it Sinhala or English, Malini Govinnage’s writing style had a marked simplicity and at times intricacy. Govinnage’s line of thinking was much moulded by translations. The very first of her lengthy list of translations is Italian novelist Ignazio Silone’s Fontamara. The translation played a crucial role in the early seventies when the access to world literature was very much limited for the Sri Lankan Sinhala readership. Veteran literary critic Reggie Siriwardana identified her as an epitome of the Sinhala-medium-educated generation well versed in European literature. ...