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Monday, 19 July 2004 |
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Monica - the poetess of our times by Malini Govinnage For over three decades Monica Ruwanpathirana shone in the firmament of
modern Sinhala poetry. Deserving to be named the Poetess of Lanka, no
woman in the contemporary poetic field came on par with her after Gajaman
Nona of Ruhuna. Monica too was a daughter of Ruhuna. Of the twenty-three
books she authored, nineteen were of poetry; three of them won State
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