Benedict Dodampegama

A senior journalist, author of many books and a renowned film critic -Benedict Dodampegama passed away on the 19th of February, at the age of 75,after a brief illness. Mr Dodampegama, fondly known as ' Ben' in Srilanka's journalistic and literary field, first joined Lake House in 1954 April, after being introduced to Observer's then editor Denzil Peiris by the film maestro Lester James Peiris. He started feature- writing to Srilanka's renowned Sinhala journal 'Silumina' and his contributions helped make …