Rediscovering Martin Wickramasinghe - Groundviews

Rediscovering Martin Wickramasinghe - Groundviews

Photo courtesy of Sputnik Media  The Martin Wickramasinghe Collection at the National Library in Colombo contains over 5,000 books. Most of them are worn out and dusty, although well preserved. Some are recent additions. The oldest among the collection date to the early 1910s. Straddling different periods, genres and subjects, they remain a useful guide to the man who owned them, read them and wrote on the topics they covered. Arguably the most …