Denzil Peiris (15 March 1917 – 6 March 1985) was the editor of '' The Ceylon Observer'', published by
Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited
Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited (ANCL), also known as Lake House, is a print media company in Sri Lanka. It publishes three daily, three weekend, five weekly, two monthly and three annual publications in Sinhala, English and Tamil.
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Peiris was born on 15 March 1917, at
Gampaha
Gampaha (Sinhala: ගම්පහ ; Tamil: கம்பஹா ) is an urban city in Gampaha District, Western Province, Sri Lanka. It is situated to the north-east of the capital Colombo. It is the sixth largest urban area in Western Provinc ...
the eldest of a family of eight. He received his education at
Nalanda College Colombo
Nalanda College () is a Buddhist school in Sri Lanka that provides primary and secondary education for boys.Lake House (now known as Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited) to support his family. He rose through the ranks becoming the editor of ''
Silumina
Silumina () is a Sinhala language weekly newspaper in Sri Lanka. It is published by the Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited (Lake House), a government-owned corporation. The newspaper commenced publishing in March 30 1930, D. R. Wijewardena b ...
'' in the 1950s, ''Janatha'' (a Sinhalese daily tabloid), ''Jana'' (an international news magazine) and eventually '' The Ceylon Observer'' in 1961, a position he retained for nine years.
Peiris left Sri Lanka in the early 1970s to work as the Indian correspondent for a Hong Kong–based newspaper, ''The Asian''. He then joined the ''
Far Eastern Economic Review
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'' working as its regional editor before moving in 1979 to the United Kingdom to become the founder editor of ''South'', a monthly magazine which focused events happening primarily in the underdeveloped Southern regions of the globe - Asia, Africa and Southern America.
Peiris died in
London
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on 6 March 1985, was cremated there, with some of his ashes buried at
Highgate Cemetery
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