{"id":28452,"date":"2014-03-01T20:52:32","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T01:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=28452"},"modified":"2014-03-01T20:56:39","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T01:56:39","slug":"vijitha-yapa-elected-chairman-of-the-afro-asian-book-council-at-agm-held-in-new-delhi-during-world-book-fair-is-first-sri-lankan-to-hold-this-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=28452","title":{"rendered":"Vijitha Yapa Elected  Chairman of the Afro-Asian book Council at AGM held in New Delhi is the  First Sri Lankan to hold this post."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Vijitha Yapa was elected Chairman of the Afro Asian Book Council last week at the AGM of the organization held in New Delhi during the World Book Fair 2014. He is the first Sri Lankan to hold this position.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yapa is currently the President of the Sri Lanka Book Publishers\u2019 Association and Vice President of the Asia Pacific Publishers Association.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing members of the Afro Asian Book Council, he thanked them for the confidence they had in him and said the first priority is to get books published in Asia to bookshops in Africa and for books published in Africa to be sold in Asian markets.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There are many disputes with regard to the administration during colonial rule by the British, the common language of English must be used as a bridge, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Yapa said that in Sri Lanka this year, the winning entry for the \u2018Swarna Pusthaka\u2019 award for the best novel published in Sinhala will be translated into English so that it will be available throughout the world.<\/p>\n<p>He said that digital e-books through organisations like Amazon have opened many possibilities of making available good literature to a much wider audience of readers at a reasonable cost.<\/p>\n<p>The Afro Asian Book Council was established 24 years ago with the main objective of achieving intellectual self-reliance through mutual assistance and cooperation between Africa and Asia in authorship and publishing.<\/p>\n<p>The activities in Asia and Africa have included participating in book exhibitions and author development workshops at national and international levels, book industry training programs, seminars, consultations and annual conferences on book-related themes in Asia and Africa. In addition the council facilitates the flow of books and Rights with a view to promoting indigenous authorship and publishing.\u2002<\/p>\n<p><em>COURTESY:SUNDAY ISLAND<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton28452\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D28452&amp;text=Vijitha%20Yapa%20Elected%20%20Chairman%20of%20the%20Afro-Asian%20book%20Council%20at%20AGM%20held%20in%20New%20Delhi%20is%20the%20%20First%20Sri...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vijitha Yapa was elected Chairman of the Afro Asian Book Council last week at the AGM of the organization held in New Delhi during the World Book Fair 2014. 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