The Fairway National Literary Awards 2018 Final Awards next week!

The Fairway National Literary Awards (FNLA) 2018 is scheduled to take place on the 3rd of December in Colombo. This Awards Ceremony is being hosted by Fairway Holdings, one of the leading conglomerates in Sri Lanka, for the 4th consecutive year, in its continuous bid to encourage and promote excellent creative writing in all three languages; Sinhala, Tamil and English.

Launched as a fringe event for the Fairway Galle Literary Festival in 2015, when the company took over the title sponsorship of the biggest international literary festival in the country, FNLA has seen the emergence of some of the best creative writers in Sri Lanka. The main objective of FNLA is to fulfil the nationally important need of providing opportunities to talented local authors so that they can achieve islandwide recognition. This commitment shown towards the arts and culture of the country by Fairway Holdings has inspired and encouraged many budding authors. The significant cash prizes as well as the due recognition given to both the writers and publishers have made the Fairway National Literary Awards one of the most highly anticipated events in the literary calendar of Sri Lanka.

For this year’s competition entries were called in June 2018 and there was a remarkable response with over 120 books being submitted. The shortlist was announced on the 30th of August where 5 novels in the Sinhala category, 5 in the Tamil category and 4 in the English category got shortlisted for the final award.