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RICHARD SIMON

Born in 1958, Richard Simon attended S. Thomas’ Preparatory School, Kollupitiya in 1964-65 and S. Thomas’ College, Mount Lavinia from 1966 until 1977. He is a writer and editor who has worked for nearly forty years in advertising, publishing, corporate communications and related fields in India, Singapore and the UAE as well as in his own country. He has written and published several books on Sri Lankan history and culture as well as numerous magazine articles and essays. 

Non-Fiction
• Ceylon Tea: The Trade That Made A Nation, Colombo 2016,
   Colombo Tea Traders’ Association
• Sri Lanka: The Island from Above, Colombo, 2014, Access
   Publications. Revised edition 2017, Colombo, Barefoot/DSR
• Legacy: John Keells and the History of Sri Lankan Business. 
   Colombo, 2006, Hybridmedia
• Sri Lanka: The Resplendent Isle with Dominic Sansoni. Singapore,
   1989, Times Editions


Fiction
• ‘The Man Who Saw the Taj Mahal by Moonlight’, First Proof 7
   New Delhi, 2011, Penguin Books

• ‘A Plain Tale from the Hills’, Himal Southasian, Kathmandu, September 2011

As Editor
• Ajit Chittampalam, Tea Men: A History of the Colombo Tea Traders’ Association
   Colombo, 2019, CTTA

• Howard Martenstyn, Out of the Blue: The Marine Mammals of Sri Lanka,
   Colombo, 2013, Citrus Media
• Various Authors, Pusaka: Art of Indonesia, Jakarta, 1991, National Museum
   of Indonesia

• Michael Vatikiotis, Over Indonesia, Singapore, 1991, Archipelago Press

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