The 2016 Fairway Galle Literary Festival (FGLF) hosted 83 participants, both local and from around the world who took part in 102 events in Kandy, Galle and Jaffna.
The 2016 participant line up included internationally acclaimed authors, award winning stage and screen actors, pulitzer prize winning poets, world renowned architects and explorers, historians, performance troupes, choirs, photographers, artists and michelin star chefs.
Participant Gallery
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- Anjalendran
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- Shari Amarasuriya
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- Mona Arshi
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- Jenny Balfour-Paul
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- Isuru Chamara
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- Chamber Music Society of Colombo
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- Visakesa Chandraseraram
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- Chef Charles
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- Paul M. M. Cooper
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- Channa Daswatte
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- Sonali Deraniyagala
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- Tishani Doshi
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- Devianayaki
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- Saba Douglas-Hamilton
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- Sebastian Faulks
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- Heike Fiedler
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- Rosanna Flamer-Caldera
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- Amitav Ghosh
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- The Grassrooted Trust
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- Matt Haig
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- Larry T. Hill
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- Tom Holland
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- Syed Manzoorul Islam
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- Edmund Jayasuriya
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- Tissa Jayatilaka
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- Capt. Elmo Jayawardena
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- Ramya Chamalie Jirasinghe
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- Sonam Kalra and the Sufi Gospel Project.
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- Jayatilaka Kummallaweera
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- Sunanda Karunaratna
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- Shehan Karunatilaka
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- Timran Keerthi
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- AJ Low: Adan Jimenez and Felicia Low-Jimenez
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- David Lough
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- Kenan Malik
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- Jill MacDonald
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- Anthony McGowan
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- Jehan Mendis
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- Rohini Mohan
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- Shani Mootoo
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- Nayomi Munaweera
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- Omar Musa
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- Ursula Nelius
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- Gregory Pardlo
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- S Pathmanathan
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- Sebastian Posingis
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- Chefs Jacques and Laurent Pourcel
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- Geeta Ramanujam
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- Ariyawansa Ranaweera
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- Professor David Robson
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- Meg Rosoff
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- Anuradha Roy
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- Minoli Salgado
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- Dominic Sansoni
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- Ayathurai Santhan
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- Sea Legs Dance Group
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- Shyam Selvadurai
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- Nandana Sen
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- Fiona Shaw
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- Andrea Maria Schenkel
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- Kandiah Shriganeshan
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- William Sieghart
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- Jon Snow
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- Meera Sodha
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- Soul Sounds Choir
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- Gayathree Srikandavel
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- Andy Stanton
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- Alex Stewart
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- Sir Roy Strong
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- Samanth Subramanian
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- Meera Syal
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- Chhimi Tenduf-La
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- Jeet Thayil
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- Hugh Thomson
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- Sir Mark Tully
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- Vivimarie Vander Poorten
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- Padma Viswanathan
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- Ramla Wahab-Salman
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- Nandana Weerasinghe
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- Carmen Wickramagamage
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- Dr. Sunil Wijesiriwardena
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- Anoma Wijewardene
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- Ovidia Yu