June 19, 20171min428
Chief Minister of the Southern Province of Sri Lanka Shan Wijeyalal de Silva presents a special award to publisher Vijitha Yapa as a pioneer from the South in the Book trade in Sri Lanka and for promoting Sri Lanka books overseas, at the inauguration of the Southern Province International Book Fair last week in Galle. Vijitha Yapa was born in Waralla in the Southern Province and had his early education at the village school.