A dogem car ride at the Excel World in Colombo

For ten straight years, Deshabandu Siri Saman Godage (seen here at the Colombo International Book Fair) has won the State Literary award for publishing the most number of books.

By thursday evening, the Colombo Internation Book Fair 2007 had attracted 400,000 visitors. That’s 5% of the countries population and they are not quite finished yet. The show has three more days to run.

The five golden authors. Nominees for the First ever ‘Swarna Pusthaka’ award become joint winners. Here they can be seen with Dr A.T Ariyaratne at a ceremony to declare open the Colombo International Book Fair. This photo was on the front page of the Sunday Observer (09/09/07).