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Vijita Fernando, the Glossary

Index Vijita Fernando

Vijita Fernando (born 5 December 1926) is a Sri Lankan journalist, translator and fiction writer.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 22 relations: Cairo, Daily News (Sri Lanka), Delhi, English language, Folklore, Gratiaen Prize, Gunadasa Amarasekara, IslamOnline, Journalist, Manila, New York City, Non-governmental organization, Rome, Sinhala language, Sri Lanka, State Literary Award, Sybil Wettasinghe, Translation, University of Ceylon, Welikadawatte, Women's Feature Service, Writer.

  2. 20th-century Sri Lankan women writers
  3. 20th-century Sri Lankan writers
  4. 21st-century Sri Lankan women writers
  5. 21st-century Sri Lankan writers

Cairo

Cairo (al-Qāhirah) is the capital of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, and is the country's largest city, being home to more than 10 million people.

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Daily News (Sri Lanka)

The Daily News is an English-language newspaper in Sri Lanka.

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Delhi

Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi (ISO: Rāṣṭrīya Rājadhānī Kṣētra Dillī), is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Folklore

Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture.

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Gratiaen Prize

The Gratiaen Prize is an annual literary prize for the best work of literary writing in English by a resident of Sri Lanka.

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Gunadasa Amarasekara

Gunadasa Amarasekera (born 1929) is a prominent Sinhala writer, poet, and essayist from Sri Lanka.

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IslamOnline

IslamOnline is a global Islamic website on the Internet providing services to Muslims and non-Muslims in several languages.

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Journalist

A journalist is a person who gathers information in the form of text, audio or pictures, processes it into a newsworthy form and disseminates it to the public.

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Manila

Manila (Maynila), officially the City of Manila (Lungsod ng Maynila), is the capital and second-most-populous city of the Philippines after Quezon City.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Non-governmental organization

A non-governmental organization (NGO) (see spelling differences) is an organization that generally is formed independent from government.

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Rome

Rome (Italian and Roma) is the capital city of Italy.

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Sinhala language

Sinhala (Sinhala: සිංහල), sometimes called Sinhalese, is an Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken by the Sinhalese people of Sri Lanka, who make up the largest ethnic group on the island, numbering about 16 million.

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, historically known as Ceylon, and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia.

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State Literary Award

The State Literary Award is a set of annual literary prizes by the Government of Sri Lanka under several categories.

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Sybil Wettasinghe

Kala Keerthi Sybil Wettasinghe (සිබිල් වෙත්තසිංහ) (31 October 1927 – 1 July 2020) was a children's book writer and an illustrator in Sri Lanka. Vijita Fernando and Sybil Wettasinghe are 20th-century Sri Lankan women writers, 20th-century Sri Lankan writers, 21st-century Sri Lankan women writers and 21st-century Sri Lankan writers.

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Translation

Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text.

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University of Ceylon

The University of Ceylon was the only university in Sri Lanka (earlier Ceylon) from 1942 until 1972.

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Welikadawatte

Welikadawatte, a middle-class housing estate in Rajagiriya, Sri Lanka, was a result of the first co-operative housing scheme in Sri Lanka.

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Women's Feature Service

Women's Feature Service (WFS) is an Indian women's news agency and magazine, based in New Delhi, India.

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Writer

A writer is a person who uses written words in different writing styles, genres and techniques to communicate ideas, to inspire feelings and emotions, or to entertain.

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See also

20th-century Sri Lankan women writers

20th-century Sri Lankan writers

21st-century Sri Lankan women writers

21st-century Sri Lankan writers

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijita_Fernando