Blog Archives

A Book Review-An outstanding treatise on Human Food – By Dr Palitha Ganewatta   We are proud to note that our own Milton Fernando’s recent book was awarded the 2022 Sri Lanka State Literary Prize in the Best Research category. The book titled ‘ආහාර පුරාණේ ‘, which I would like to translate as ‘History of Food’, as this work deals with the origin and evolution of food production and food consumption of the world from pre-historic times to contemporary society. Milton Fernando, who resides in sunny Queensland, Australia, is not a stranger to the Sri Lankan literary community. Milton has published a few literary creations before, among them two volumes of translations of twentieth century Nobel Prize-winning short stories stand out (සම්මාන සංදාම Vol 1 & 2). Milton has also produced a lucid translation of an Egyptian feminist writer, Nawal El Saadawi’s acclaimed novel ‘Woman at Point Zero’ into Sinhalese ...