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Ashok Ferrey is the author of seven books, all of them variously nominated for the Gratiaen Prize (Sri Lanka’s premier literary prize), the State Literary Award and the DSC Prize. His last book, The Unmarriageable Man, went on to win the Gratiaen. His first book, Colpetty People, remains Sri Lanka’s top-selling book twenty years after its first publication. Former host of The Ashok Ferrey Show on Sri Lankan television, Ashok builds and renovates houses and is the only non-architect to have been nominated for a Geoffrey Bawa Award for Architectural Excellence – for his last building the Cricket Café in Colombo.
