Personal Collections

Personal collection of individuals including books, magazines, monographs and other documents are of great importance in our society. Such collections have been handed to Noolaham Foundation partially and fully for digitization.

Thevathas Thambiayah

Thevathas Thampiayya is a retired teacher originally from Pungudutivu. He was born in Jaffna on 24th of April, 1951. He is well know for his books on Sri Lankan cinema and translations from Sinhala to Tamil. He has written a number of books on Cinematography, Proverbs etc.

Thevathas was one of the early contributors towards Noolaham activities. He gave a number of books and magazines especially related to cinema and radio to digitize and include in Noolaham digital library. He involves with Noolaham Foundation to share his publications as well as collections so that readers all around the world can benefit.

Antony Jeeva

Sebastian Antony Jeeva is a well known Tamil author from the Up-Country region of Sri Lanka. He was born in Colombo on 26th May, 1944 and lives in Up-Country. He has been supporting to the literature records of hill country Tamils for a long time and expressing their livelihood difficult issues by his creatives. He served as a newspaper reporter in ‘Thinappathi’, ‘Sinthaamani’ journals in early stage of his life and also now functioning as an freelance writer in several newspapers.

Sebastian Antony Jeeva involves with Noolaham foundation in many activities, besides gives his valuable books collection and his publications such as fictions, short stories, poems and research books to digitize in NF digital library. Also his assertions has been encouraging the foundation in successful ways. He has been introducing so many Up-Country publications and writers with our foundation and supporting to collect their written resources by us to digitize in digital library. Noolaham foundation created a special portal also in NF digital library for the hill country bibliographies as an encouragement to all authors such as him.