Carl Muller is a Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...

n writer

Writer

A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

, poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

 and journalist

Journalist

A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...

 best known for his trilogy about Burghers

Burgher people

The Burghers 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 and local women, with some minorities of Swedish, Norwegian, French and Irish.Today the mother tongue of the Burghers...

 in Sri Lanka: The Jam Fruit Tree, Yakada Yaka and Once Upon A Tender Time. He has won Gratien Awards for The Jam Fruit Tree in 1993 and a State Literary Award for his historical novel, Children of the Lion.

Biography

Muller was born in Kandy

Kandy

Kandy is a city in the center of Sri Lanka. It was the last capital of the ancient kings' era of Sri Lanka. The city lies in the midst of hills in the Kandy plateau, which crosses an area of tropical plantations, mainly tea. Kandy is one of the most scenic cities in Sri Lanka; it is both an...

, the eldest in a family of thirteen. Dismissed from three schools, he left home at the age of eighteen to join the Royal Ceylon Navy as a signalman

Signalman

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. He went on to briefly serve in the Ceylon Army and later joined the Colombo Port Commission as a signals officer.

Next, Muller tried his hand at journalism, eventually marrying Sortain Harris and leaving Sri Lanka in order to work at newspapers in the Middle East

Middle East

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.

Muller is currently a regular contributor to Sri Lankan newspapers. He and his wife live in Kandy

Kandy

Kandy is a city in the center of Sri Lanka. It was the last capital of the ancient kings' era of Sri Lanka. The city lies in the midst of hills in the Kandy plateau, which crosses an area of tropical plantations, mainly tea. Kandy is one of the most scenic cities in Sri Lanka; it is both an...

 with their three children.

Novels

• The Jam Fruit Tree (Winner of the Gratiaen Prize
  Gratiaen Prize
  The Gratiaen Prize is an annual literary prize for best work of literary writing in English by a resident Sri Lankan. It was founded in 1992 by the Sri Lankan-born Canadian novelist Michael Ondaatje with the money he received as joint-winner of the Booker Prize for his novel The English Patient...
  
  ) (1993)
• Yakada Yaka (1994)
• Once Upon A Tender Time (1995)
• Spit and Polish
• Maudiegirl and the von Bloss Kitchen

Historical Fiction

• Colombo - A Novel (1996)
• Children of the Lion (Winner of the State Literary Award) (1997)
• City of the Lion

Short stories

• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Cemetery
• Birdsong & Other Tales
• All God's Children (2004) (shortlisted for the Gratiaen Award)
• The Python of Pura Malai and Other Stories
• Wedding Night (2007)

Poetry

• Father Samaan and the Devil
• Sri Lanka - A Lyric
• Propitiations
• A Bedlam of Persuasions
• Clouds over my Senses
• Read Me in Silence
• The Thin Red Line

Children's Fiction

• Ranjit Discovers Where Kandy Began (1992) (also rendered in Sinhala)
• The Python of Pura Malai and other stories

Academic Works

• The Elizabethans: The Origin of, and the Great Flowering of Modern English

Literature - Volume I

Views & Reviews

• Many Bulls in My China Shop
• More Bulls in My China Shop
• More and More Bulls in My China Shop
• The Bulls are Back in My China Shop

Monographs

• Glorying in that Great Divide
• Conflict in Cinderella’s Kitchen
• The Service Economy: Is there a Dangerous Dichotomisation of Wealth?
• Productivity: The Key to Economic Domination
• Tourism: Aiming for that Magic Million
• God Men Rising: Challenging the Bedrock of Hindu Beliefs and Values
• Conflict Within: Challenging Sovereignty and Human Solidarity

Works Edited

• Mews and Purrs (Lancashire, England)]
• The Tide Press of a Dedicated Life: A Tribute to Christine Spittel-Wilson
• Rendering Unto Caesar
• The Poems of Destry Muller (Winner of the State Literary Award)
• A Rainbow Sash Adorns my Dreaming Sky

External links

• Partial Profile at The Literary Encyclopaedia
• Author page at Penguin Books India
• Author page on Goodreads
• Author page on WriteClique