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Martin Wickramasinghe
relaxing in 1972 in the veranda of the house in Koggala where
he was born in 1890. This house has now been restored to recreate
the appearance it had when he was a boy.
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Deeply absorbed in his writing in
the library in his Nawala Residence. Search for roots was the central
theme in his writings on the culture and life of the people of Sri
Lanka, which he continued unbroken for a period of over 70 years.
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Martin Wickramasinghe walking on
the very beach in Koggala where he frolicked as a child. It was
this beach and this reef that stimulated his interests in biological
studies and prompted him to write books on subjects such as Darwin's
theory of Evolution in Sinhala in later life..
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The lake, sea and forested hinterland of Koggala
which Martin Wickramasinghe immortalised in his novels, short stories
and autobiographical writings.
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