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PUBLICATION ASSISTANCE PROJECT - CHILDREN'S AND YOUTH LITERATURE

The Publication Assistance Project of Manuscript Printing of Children and Youth Literature, directed by the National Library and Documentation Services Board, is a project implemented to achieve the following objectives.

• Promoting the habit of reading of children
• Improve the availability of children’s and youth literature
• Encouraging the authors and translators who submit quality and standard translations
• Increasing additional reading books for school children

The National Library and Documentation Services Board assists the writers under this project by way of introducing higher printing standards for manuscripts to be granted financial aids for printing and purchasing a certain number of copies after printing of such work. The maximum of the grant provided for manuscripts will be Rs.40,000/- for books under children’s, literature and Rs.50,000/- for books under youth literature.

Manuscripts which can be submitted

Manuscripts for the children between the age groups 06-16 and manuscripts under youth literature can be submitted for the purpose

• Book which have not published previously
• Books of which the printed pages are 16 or more as per the UNESCO criteria, in case the book under youth literature, number of the pages should be over 49
• Prose, poems, songs, drama, children’s pictorials and the translations of such works can be submitted.

Manuscripts which are not accepted

• Subject related book/Question and answers/books aimed for examinations
• Manuscripts for which aids were granted under other aids programme
• Manuscripts of child authors

Contact:

Address	:	Assistant Director Publication & Book Development Division National Library and Documentation Services Board No. 14, Independence Avenue Colombo 07 Sri Lanka
Phone	:	+94 11 2687583
Email	:	[email protected]