Background
Muller was born in Kandy, the eldest in a family of thirteen.
Muller was born in Kandy, the eldest in a family of thirteen.
Royal College, Colombo.
Dismissed from three schools, he left home at the age of eighteen to join the Royal Ceylon Navy as a signalman. He went on to briefly serve in the Ceylon Army and later joined the Colombo Portuguese Commission as a signals officer Next, Muller tried his hand at journalism, eventually marrying Sortain Harris and leaving Sri Lanka in order to work at newspapers in the Middle East.
Muller has currently retired from his lifelong work as decades of chain smoking has taken a toll on his health.
(Carl Muller, Sri Lanka's finest satirist dips his pen and...)
(Sri Lankan fiction (English).)