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Graham, Maria `More Descriptive, More Personal: Maria Graham, the First Female Writer to Write on Ceylon in English' Richard Boyle The Sunday Times: Plus 26 Aug p9.
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Gunesekera, Romesh `Romesh Gunesekera: The Match' Anna Horsbrugh-Porter The Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities 33(1/2) pp149-52.
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Muller, Carl `Muller on Mysterious Journeys into Other Worlds' Joseph Appuhamy Devendra The Sunday Times: Plus 7 Oct p4 [review of Wedding Night].
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---`A Story-Teller like No Other' Kshanika Argent Sunday Leader 23 Sep <www. rootsweb.com/~lkawgw/cmuller.html>.
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Müller, J.B `The Survival of the Fittest' K.D. Paranavitana The Sunday Times: Plus 13 May p8 [review of The Burghers].
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Ondaatje, Michael `A Poet Charts the Novel for Our Century' Ernest MacIntyre The Sunday Times: Plus 24 June p9 [review of Divisadero].
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Channels 14(1) ed Anne Ranasinghe English Writers Cooperative of Sri Lanka. Published bi-annually and described as `A Journal of Creative Writing' on front cover.
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka New Series (LII) [2006, published in 2007] ed Padma Edirisinghe, Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka, 96 Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo 7: annual journal for members of RASSL which covers research on a range of topics relating to Sri Lanka, including language, literature and the Arts.
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Nēthrā 10(1) (Jan-Apr), (2) (May-Aug), (Sept-Dec) ed Ameena Hussain, International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo. Annual sub Sri Lanka Rs400; SAARC countries US $20; other countries US $25. Successor to The Thatched Patio, this quarterly publication includes original works of fiction and poetry; essays on subjects such as pop culture, cultural studies, political/sociological studies visual arts; and book/film reviews.
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The Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities 33(1/2) ed S.W. Perera, Faculty of Arts, University of Peradeniya. Annual sub Rs250, US $15, or equivalent in convertible currency: a biannual publication which carries articles on all aspects of the Humanities including reviews and critical essays on Literature and Language.