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Death of Senior journalist Eva Ranaweera

The death occurred yesterday of veteran author and senior journalist Mrs. Eva Ranaweera. She was 85. A past pupil of Gampaha Holy Cross College and a university graduate she started her career at the Official Languages Department. Founder Editor of ‘Vanitha Viththi’ women’s weekly she served in that capacity for 10 years.

She has also worked abroad as the Sri Lanka representative to the Africa-Asia Conference. As an author of Sinhala and English books she has several books including ‘Sedona’, ‘Morakelle’, ‘Aththaka Mal Parava Giya,’ ‘Ping gona’, ‘Lovi Gahe Pilila’, ‘Ihata Vahala Nil Ahasa’, ‘Samanala Uyana’ and Maha Andakareya to her credit.

Her books ‘When we returned with you’ and ‘With Maya’ bagged the State literary awards in 1993 and 1998.

Her remains are lying at the Jayaratne Funeral Parlour, Borella. Funeral takes place at the Borella Cemetery on February 11 at 5 p.m.

Award winning movie screened in Myanmar

Deviating from the traditional way of celebrating Sri Lanka’s Independence, the Sri Lankan Embassy in Myanmar, under the leadership of Ambassador Newton Gunaratna screened the internationally renowned, Presidential award winning movie Sooriya Arana directed by Somaratne Dissanayake at the Embassy premises on February 7.

Senior Government officials, diplomats, Sri Lankan expatriates and business community based in Yangon participated.