{"id":3390,"date":"2012-01-07T12:38:40","date_gmt":"2012-01-07T12:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colombotelegraph.com\/?p=3390"},"modified":"2012-01-07T12:38:40","modified_gmt":"2012-01-07T12:38:40","slug":"two-new-books-from-exile-journalist-manjula-wediwardena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/two-new-books-from-exile-journalist-manjula-wediwardena\/","title":{"rendered":"Two New Books From Exile Journalist Manjula Wediwardena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:left;\">By Colombo Telegraph &#8211;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3402\" style=\"width: 241px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/manjula-colombotelegraph1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3402\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3402\" title=\"manjula colombotelegraph\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/manjula-colombotelegraph1.jpg?w=231\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/manjula-colombotelegraph1.jpg 317w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/manjula-colombotelegraph1-231x300.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3402\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manjula<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Manjula Wediwardena\u2019s\u00a0 5th collection of poetry as <strong>Ehala Emathumakata Eharemi<\/strong>\u00a0 (Awaking from a summon of summer) and the new collection of short Stories as <strong>Shuddhawu Judas<\/strong> ( Saint Judas) are now published. Manjula is a\u00a0journalist, writer and poet now living in exile.<\/p>\n<p>In 1997 he published a book called <strong>Niruththara Samaadhiya<\/strong> (Hopeless Trance) with Shane Mackelvie and then in order he published\u00a0 <strong>Pilihuduvi <\/strong>(Kingfisheress ),\u00a0 <strong>Madhusandini Madhu Vitha<\/strong> (Glass of Wine from the Honeymoon ), <strong>Mathrukaavak Nethi Maathru Bhoomiya hewath Demala Kavi<\/strong> (Motherland that lost the Land).<\/p>\n<p>The Collection of short stories called <strong>Mary nam wu Maria<\/strong> ( Mariya called Mary) was to be published on year 2000, from the Sri Lanka Catholic Bishops conference has complained to Criminal Investigation Department\u00a0 (CID) through the minister of cultural Lakshman Jayakodi , as a result they arrested all the books with the author. However the unpublished book is permanently banned in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-align:left;\">The <\/span><strong>Ehala Emathumakata Eharemi<\/strong><span style=\"text-align:left;\"> is included with 50 poems is\u00a0 published by Fast publishers, Maradana and front cover design from Ravindra Thenuwara . Also the <\/span><strong>Shuddha wu Judas<\/strong><span style=\"text-align:left;\"> cover design\u00a0 from Prasad samarasekara and published by Suriya publishers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/cover-of-ehela-emathumakata-eheremi-1-colombotelegraph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3395\" title=\"EhelaFINAL copy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/cover-of-ehela-emathumakata-eheremi-1-colombotelegraph.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/cover-of-ehela-emathumakata-eheremi-1-colombotelegraph.jpg 1968w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/cover-of-ehela-emathumakata-eheremi-1-colombotelegraph-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/cover-of-ehela-emathumakata-eheremi-1-colombotelegraph-1024x736.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/cover-of-ehela-emathumakata-eheremi-1-colombotelegraph-800x575.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/cover-of-saint-judas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3396\" title=\"COVER  of Saint Judas\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/cover-of-saint-judas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/cover-of-saint-judas.jpg 3508w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/cover-of-saint-judas-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/cover-of-saint-judas-1024x758.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/cover-of-saint-judas-800x592.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":3402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,62],"tags":[1749,1750,1751,1752,1753,1754,1659],"class_list":["post-3390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-poems","tag-banned-books-in-sri-lanka","tag-censorship","tag-exile-jouranalists","tag-exile-life","tag-manjula-wediwardenas-5th-collection","tag-new-books","tag-press-freedom-in-sri-lanka"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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