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List Of Burgher People
This is a list of notable Burgher people, who are a Eurasian ethnic group, historically from Sri Lanka, consisting for the most part of male-line descendants of European colonists from the 16th to 20th centuries (mostly Portuguese, Dutch, German and British) and local women, with some minorities of French and Irish. Academics * E. F. C. Ludowyk – Professor of English, Dean of the School of Arts, University of Ceylon * Prof. E. O. E. Pereira – founding Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Ceylon; Vice Chancellor Peradeniya Civil servants * Major General Bertram Heyn – Commander of Ceylon Army; cricket, field hockey and rugby star * Neville Jansz – Sri Lankan diplomat * M. C. Sansoni – Puisne Judge and then Chief Justice * Sir Francis Soertsz – Supreme Court Judge * Wilhelm Woutersz – Sri Lankan diplomat * Dr. Richard Gerald Anthonisz - First Colonial Secretary and Chief Archivist of the National Archives of Ceylon. Professionals * Cecil Balmon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Notability
Notability is the property of being worthy of notice, having fame, or being considered to be of a high degree of interest, significance, or distinction. It also refers to the capacity to be such. Persons who are notable due to public responsibility, accomplishments, or, even, mere participation in the celebrity industry are said to have a public profile. The concept arises in the philosophy of aesthetics regarding aesthetic appraisal.Aesthetic Appraisal', Philosophy (1975), 50: 189–204, Evan Simpson There are criticisms of art galleries determining monetary valuation, or valuation so as to determine what or what not to display, being based on notability of the artist, rather than inherent quality of the art work. Notability arises in decisions on coverage questions in journalism. Marketers and newspapers may try to create notability to create celebrity, fame, or notoriety, or to increase sales, as in the yellow press. The privileged class are sometimes called notables, when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecil Balmond
Cecil Balmond OBE is a Sri Lankan–British designer, artist, and writer. In 1968 Balmond joined Ove Arup & Partners, leading him to become deputy chairman. In 2000 he founded design and research group, the AGU (Advanced Geometry Unit). He currently holds the Paul Philippe Cret Chair at PennDesign as Professor of Architecture where he is also the founding director of the Non Linear Systems Organization, a material and structural research unit. He has also been Kenzo Tange Visiting Design Critic at Harvard Graduate School of Architecture (2000), Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor at Yale University School of Architecture (1997-2002) and visiting fellow at London School of Economics Urban Cities Programme (2002-2004). In 2010 Balmond set up his own practice, Balmond Studio, with offices in London and Colombo. The research led practice is involved with art, architecture, design and consulting. One current project is the Gretna Landmark, Star of Caledonia for which Cecil is the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The English Patient
''The English Patient'' is a 1992 novel by Michael Ondaatje. The book follows four dissimilar people brought together at an Italian villa during the Italian Campaign of the Second World War. The four main characters are: an unrecognisably burned man — the eponymous patient, presumed to be English; his Canadian Army nurse; a Sikh British Army sapper; and a Canadian thief. The story occurs during the North African Campaign and centres on the incremental revelations of the patient's actions prior to his injuries, and the emotional effects of these revelations on the other characters. The story is told by multiple characters and "authors" of books the characters are reading. The book is, in part, a sequel to the 1987 novel ''In the Skin of a Lion'', which continues the story of characters of his stories, Hana and Caravaggio, as well as revealing the fate of the latter's main character, Patrick Lewis. It won the 1992 Booker Prize, the 1992 Governor General's Award and the 2018 G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Ondaatje
Philip Michael Ondaatje (; born 12 September 1943) is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer, essayist, novelist, editor, and filmmaker. He is the recipient of multiple literary awards such as the Governor General's Award, the Giller Prize, the Booker Prize, and the Prix Médicis étranger. Ondaatje is also an Officer of the Order of Canada, recognizing him as one of Canada's most renowned living authors. Ondaatje's literary career began with his poetry in 1967, publishing ''The Dainty Monsters'', and then in 1970 the critically acclaimed ''The Collected Works of Billy the Kid.'' However, he is more recently recognized for his nationally and internationally successful novel ''The English Patient'' (1992), which was adapted into a film in 1996. In 2018, Ondaatje won the Golden Man Booker Prize for ''The English Patient''. In addition to his literary writing, Ondaatje has been an important force in "fostering new Canadian writing""Michael Ondaatje." In ''An Anthology o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Muller
Kala Keerthi Carl Muller (22 October 1935 – 2 December 2019) was an award-winning Sri Lankan writer, poet and journalist best known for his trilogy about Burghers in Sri Lanka: ''The Jam Fruit Tree'', ''Yakada Yaka'' and ''Once Upon A Tender Time''. He won Gratiaen Awards for ''The Jam Fruit Tree'' in 1993Profile of Carl Muller at The Galle Literary Festival Website and a for his historical novel, ''Children of the Lion''. He was the first Sri Lankan author to publish a book internationally. He was reported to have died on 2 December 2019 which was con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelle De Kretser
Michelle de Kretser (born 1957) is an Australian novelist who was born in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon), and moved to Australia in 1972 when she was 14. Education and literary career De Kretser was educated at Methodist College, Colombo, and in Melbourne at Elwood College and Paris. She worked as an editor for travel guides company Lonely Planet, and while on a sabbatical in 1999, wrote and published her first novel, ''The Rose Grower''. Her second novel, published in 2003, ''The Hamilton Case'' was winner of the Tasmania Pacific Prize, the Encore Award (UK) and the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Southeast Asia and Pacific). Her third novel, '' The Lost Dog'', was published in 2007. It was one of 13 books on the long list for the 2008 Man Booker Prize for fiction. From 1989 to 1992 she was a founding editor of the ''Australian Women's Book Review''. Her fourth novel, ''Questions of Travel'', won several awards, including the 2013 Miles Franklin Award, the Australian Literature Society Go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Blacker
David Blacker is a Sri Lankan author. In the early 1990s, as a 19-year-old, Blacker served in the 6th Sri Lanka Sinha Regiment of the Sri Lanka Army at Elephant Pass, seeing action in the regiment's heroic defense of the base. In 2001, after being wounded in battle, he went to Europe and took a part-time designing job. Blacker began to write in his spare time, and soon produced ''A Cause Untrue'', a tale of Sri Lankan war. Blacker said that while personal experience formed the basis of the novel, the plot was entirely fabricated. In 2004 the novel in manuscript form was short-listed for the Gratiaen Prize, which led to its publication in 2005. Subsequently, the book won Best Novel at the 2006 State Literary Awards and was on the 2007 long list for the International Dublin Literary Award. Blacker's blogthe Blacklight Arrow was one of the most popular Sri Lankan websites during the war, and Dr Dayan Jayatillake, Sri Lanka's former permanent representative to the UN in Geneva is quo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colombo '43 Group
The '43 Group was a 20th-century modern art school established in August 1943 in Colombo, Sri Lanka (then British Ceylon). The group was essentially an association of like-minded artists who had broken away from the Ceylon Society of Arts, led by photographer and critic Lionel Wendt, and originally included nine painters as key members (listed alphabetically): Geoffrey Beling, George Claessen, Aubrey Collette, Justin Daraniyagala, Richard Gabriel, George Keyt, Ivan Peries, Harry Pieris (the first and only Secretary of the Group), and the Ver. Manjusri Thero,Elements of an art lover , Ceylon Today, Retrieved 10 June 2015 by Godwin Witane, Retrieved 11 June 2015 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lionel Wendt
Lionel George Henricus Wendt (3 December 1900 – 19 December 1944) was a pianist, photographer, filmmaker and critic from Sri Lanka. He was the leader of ‘43 Group, a collective of Sri Lankan artists. The Lionel Wendt Art Centre is a major art centre and theatre in Colombo, Sri Lanka, dedicated to his memory. Early life His father, Henry Lorenz Wendt, came from the Burgher community, composed of mixed descendants of European settlers. A Supreme Court Justice and Legislative Counsel, he was also one of the founders of the Amateur Photographic Society of Ceylon (1906). His mother, Amelia de Saram, was Sinhalese. Daughter of a district judge, she was an active social worker, organizing numerous concerts for charity. Lionel's father died when he was less than eleven years old, and his mother less than seven years later. Despite his remarkable musical talents, family traditions and customs at the time prevented Wendt from pursuing a purely musical career. Lionel Wendt was edu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Keyt
George Percival Sproule Keyt, (17 April 1901 – 31 July 1993) was a Sri Lankan painter.George Keyt, a centennial anthology (George Keyt Foundation) He is often considered 's most distinguished modern painter. Keyt's dominant style is influenced by . He also claimed to be influenced by his contemporary and the ancient Buddhist art and sculpture of |
Geoffrey Beling
William James Geoffrey Beling (22 September 1907 29 March 1992 was a Sri Lankan artist, educator and one of the founding members of the Colombo '43 Group. Biography William James Geoffrey Beling was born in Gampola on 22 September 1922, the first son of William Wright Beling II, a Ceylonese watercolorist, and Eleanor Frances Morgan Swan, a music teacher. In 1926 he went to India to study to study architecture and art at Bombay's Sir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy School of Art. In 1928, due to the untimely death of his father, Beling gave up his studies and returned home. He then opened a private art school in Havelock Town and started exhibiting his paintings at the Art Club shows arranged by Charles Freegrove Winzer, Chief Inspector of Art. In 1930 at the Ferguson Hall, Union Place, the photographer Lionel Wendt organised Beling and fellow artist George Keyt's first exhibition. Critics considered the art ‘manifestly ridiculous and degrading’, however Pablo Neruda, the Chilean poet, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Wright Beling II
William Wright Beling (31 December 1867 – 23 June 1928) was a talented Ceylonese watercolour painter of Dutch Burgher descent. Biography Early life William Wright Beling II was born in Wolvendahl, Colombo, Sri Lanka (then Ceylon), the son of William Wright Beling I and Maria Elizabeth Prins. Beling's father, William Wright (1841–1894) was a Proctor of the Supreme Court, and his mother Maria Elizabeth Prins (1841–1888), was the daughter of H. C. Prins, also a Proctor of the Supreme Court. The Belings are descended from Willem Carl Beling of Aurich, who married, in Colombo on 30 November 1766, Maria Regina Swartskop. The family belongs to the Dutch Burgher community of Sri Lanka. Beling was the second son and the second eldest of a family of eight children, consisting of four brothers and three sisters. Harry Prins (1864–1944), Leopold Charles Carmichael (1869–1936), Ulrica Antoinette (1871–?), Dr. Christopher Charles (1873–1946) (Assistant Physician a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
