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71 relations: Ajith Thilakasena, Īḻattup pūtaṉtēvaṉār, Chandrarathna Bandara, Christopher Ondaatje, Culture of Sri Lanka, David Blacker, Dayananda Gunawardena, Dhamma Jagoda, Dharma Sri Munasinghe, Dharmasena Pathiraja, Ediriweera Sarachchandra, Eric Illayapparachchi, G. B. Senanayake, Gunadasa Amarasekara, Gurulugomi, Henry Jayasena, Henry Parker (author), J. B. Disanayake, Jayadeva Uyangoda, Jayalal Rohana, Jean Arasanayagam, John de Silva, K. Jayatillake, Kumaratunga Munidasa, Language, Lishan Perera, Lucien Bulathsinhala, Mahagama Sekara, Malaka Dewapriya, Martin Wickramasinghe, Michael Ondaatje, Nalin de Silva, Namel Weeramuni, Nayomi Munaweera, Nihal De Silva, Nira Wickramasinghe, Oral literature, P.B Jayasekara, Pali, Parakrama Kodituwakku, Piyaseeli Wijegunasinghe, Piyasena Kahandagamage, Rajiva Wijesinha, Rathna Sri Wijesinghe, Regi Siriwardena, Romesh Gunesekera, Ru Freeman, S. J. Sindu, S. Mahinda, Sagara Palansuriya, ..., Saman Tilakasiri, Shelton Payagala, Shyam Selvadurai, Simon Navagattegama, Sinhalese language, Siri Gunasinghe, Sirilal Kodikara, Sri Lanka, Sucharitha Gamlath, Sugathapala de Silva, Sunanda Mahendra, Sunil Ariyaratne, Sunil Yapa, Sybil Wettasinghe, Tamil language, Thotagamuwe Sri Rahula Thera, Tilak Jayaratne, Tissa Abeysekara, V. V. Ganeshananthan, W. A. Silva, Wimalaratne Kumaragama. Expand index (21 more) »
Ajith Thilakasena
Ajith Thilakasena (born 7 October 1933) is a Sinhala writer who deviated from the conventional use of language and created his own version which is suitable for the modern age.
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Īḻattup pūtaṉtēvaṉār
Īḻattuppūtaṉtēvaṉār (Tamil: ஈழத்துப் பூதன்தேவனார், pronounced Īḻattup Pūtaṉtēvaṉār) was one of the earliest known classical Ceylon (present day Sri Lanka)Tamil poets from the Sangam period.
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Chandrarathna Bandara
Chandrarathna Bandara is a prominent novelist in Sri Lanka who won the National Literary award for his work in 1991.
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Christopher Ondaatje
Sir Philip Christopher Ondaatje, OC, CBE, Hon.
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Culture of Sri Lanka
The culture of Sri Lanka mixes modern elements with traditional aspects and is known for its regional diversity.
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David Blacker
David Blacker is a Sri Lankan author.
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Dayananda Gunawardena
Dayananda Gunawardena (Sinhala: දයානන්ද ගුනවර්ධන) (15 October 1934 – 24 June 1993) was a Sri Lankan playwright, actor, lyricist, dramatist, radio play producer, and Sinhala Radio Play writer.
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Dhamma Jagoda
Dhamma Jagoda (born 28 January 1941, died 04 February 1988) was the first Head of the Drama Unit at the National Television channel Rupavahini Corporation in Sri Lanka.
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Dharma Sri Munasinghe
Dharma Sri Munasinghe (March 1, 1930 – August 30, 2004) was a Sinhala radio playwright and film screenwriter and director, best known for his work as the writer of the famous Sinhala radio plays Muvan palessa and Monara thenna.
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Dharmasena Pathiraja
Pathiraja Navaratne Wanninayake Mudiyanselage Ranjith Dharmasena (28 March 1943 – 28 January 2018) was a Sri Lankan film director and screenwriter.
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Ediriweera Sarachchandra
Ediriweera Sarachchandra (Sinhala: මහාචාර්ය එදිරිවීර සරච්චන්ද්ර) (3 June 1914 – 16 August 1996) was a Sri Lankan playwright, novelist, poet, literary critic, essayist and social commentator.
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Eric Illayapparachchi
Eric Illayapparachchi (born 16 December 1954) is a Sinhalese writer and poet.
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G. B. Senanayake
Gunathilake Bandara Senanayake (14 July 1913 – 16 March 1985) (known as G.B Senanayake) was a prominent Sinhala writer who portrayed Sinhala middle-class life in his novels.
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Gunadasa Amarasekara
Gunadasa Amarasekera (born 1929) is a prominent Sinhala writer, poet, and essayist from Sri Lanka.
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Gurulugomi
Gurulugomi was a Sinhalese literary figure, who lived in the 12th century in Sri Lanka.
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Henry Jayasena
Kala Keerthi Dr Henry Jayasena (Sinhala: හෙන්රි ජයසේන) (6 July 1931 – 11 November 2009) born in Bendiyamulla, Gampaha was a Sri Lankan film actor and dramatist.
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Henry Parker (author)
Henry Parker was a British engineer in colonial Ceylon during the Victorian era.
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J. B. Disanayake
Deshamanya Jayaratna Banda Dissanayake (born 16 April 1937) is an Emeritus Professor and one of the leading authorities of the Sinhala Language.
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Jayadeva Uyangoda
Jayadeva Uyangoda is a political scientist and constitutional expert in Sri Lanka.
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Jayalal Rohana
Jayalal Rohana is a Theater Director,Writer,Actor,Makeup Artist And Sinhala Radio Play writer in Sri Lanka.
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Jean Arasanayagam
Jean Arasanayagam (born Jean Solomons; 1931 in Kandy, Sri Lanka) is an English-language poet and fiction writer.
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John de Silva
John de Silva (1857–1922) was an influential Sri Lankan playwright.
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K. Jayatillake
Kaluachchigamage Jayatillake (Sinhala:කේ.ජයතිලක) (27 June 1926 – 14 September 2011), known as K.Jayatillake, is a Sinhala novelist and literary critic.
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Kumaratunga Munidasa
Kumaratunga Munidasa (Sinhala: කුමාරතුංග මුනිදාස; 25 July 1887 – 2 March 1944) was a pioneer Sri Lankan (Sinhala) linguist, grammarian, commentator, writer, poet, and journalist.
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Language
Language is a system that consists of the development, acquisition, maintenance and use of complex systems of communication, particularly the human ability to do so; and a language is any specific example of such a system.
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Lishan Perera
Charinda Lishan Perera (born 3 July 1994) is a Sri Lankan author.
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Lucien Bulathsinhala
Lucien Bulathsinhala (Sinhala:ලූෂන් බුලත්සිංහල) is a playwright, poet, author and stage drama producer.
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Mahagama Sekara
Mahagama Sekera (Sinhala:මහගම සේකර) (7 April 1929 – 14 January 1976) Sri Lankan poet, lyricist, playwright, novelist, artist, translator and filmmaker.
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Malaka Dewapriya
Malaka Dewapriya (මාලක දේවප්රිය, is a Sri Lankan film maker, visual artist, Sinhala Radio Play writer, short film and video director.
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Martin Wickramasinghe
Lama Hewage Don Martin Wickramasinghe commonly Martin Wickramasinghe, MBE (මාර්ටින් වික්රමසිංහ) (29 May 1890 – 23 July 1976) was a Sri Lankan novelist.
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Michael Ondaatje
Philip Michael Ondaatje, (born 12 September 1943), is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer, essayist, novelist, editor and filmmaker.
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Nalin de Silva
Thakurartha Devadithya Guardiyawasam Lindamulage Nalin Kumara de Silva (Sinhala: නලින් ද සිල්වා; 20 October 1944) is a Sri Lankan philosopher, a scientist and a political analyst.
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Namel Weeramuni
Namel Weeramuni is a Sri Lankan film director, dramatist, playwright and UK lawyer.
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Nayomi Munaweera
Nayomi Munaweera is a Sri Lankan American writer and author of Island of a Thousand Mirrors, which won Commonwealth Book Prize for the Asian Region in 2013.
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Nihal De Silva
Nihal De Silva (19?? – 28 May 2006) was a Sri Lankan novelist.
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Nira Wickramasinghe
Nira Konjit Wickramasinghe is Professor of Modern South Asian Studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands and a well known international academic.
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Oral literature
Oral literature or folk literature corresponds in the sphere of the spoken (oral) word to literature as literature operates in the domain of the written word.
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P.B Jayasekara
P.B. Jayasekara(පි.බි.ජයසේකර), also known as Premathilaka Jayasekara, is a Sri Lankan short story writer and translator.
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Pali
Pali, or Magadhan, is a Middle Indo-Aryan language native to the Indian subcontinent.
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Parakrama Kodituwakku
Kala Suri Parakrama Kodituwakku (?) is a notable Sinhala poet.
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Piyaseeli Wijegunasinghe
Piyaseeli Wijegunasingha (February 20, 1943 – September 2, 2010) was a Sri Lankan literary critic, Trotskyist and Marxist scholar, and a member of Sri Lanka's Socialist Equality Party from 1968 until her death.
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Piyasena Kahandagamage
Piyasena Kahandagamage (1938?- 2003?) is a Sinhala novelist and poet.
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Rajiva Wijesinha
Rajiva Wijesinha, MA, DPhil (Sinhala: රජීව විජේසිංහ) (born 16 May 1954) is a Sri Lankan writer in English, distinguished for his political analysis as well as creative and critical work.
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Rathna Sri Wijesinghe
Rathna Sri Wijesinghe (රත්න ශ්රී විජේසිංහ) (born 2 June 1953) is an award-winning Sri Lankan lyricist.
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Regi Siriwardena
Kala Keerthi Regi Siriwardena (15 May 1922 – 15 December 2004) was a Sri Lankan academic, journalist, poet, writer, playwright and writer of screenplays.
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Romesh Gunesekera
Romesh Gunesekera FRSL (born 1954) is a Sri Lankan-born British author, who was a finalist in the Man Booker Prize for his novel Reef in 1994.
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Ru Freeman
Ru Freeman (born 1967) is a Sri Lankan writer and journalist.
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S. J. Sindu
SJ Sindu (born November 27, 1987) is a Sri Lankan American novelist and short story writer.
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S. Mahinda
Sikkim Mahinda, commonly known as S. Mahinda, was a Buddhist monk from the state of Sikkim.
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Sagara Palansuriya
Palansuriya Mohottalalage Dingiri Mahaththaya (පලන්සුරිය මොහොට්ටාලලාගේ ඩිංගිරි මහත්තයා) or Kalalelle Ananda Sagara (KAS / Kayes) (කළල්ඇල්ලේ ආනන්ද සාගර (කේයස්)) or Sagara Palansuriya (සාගර පලන්සූරිය) as he was known in his late life, was a poet, teacher and a member of parliament.
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Saman Tilakasiri
Saman Tilakasiri was a renowned poet, journalist and award-winning author from Sri Lanka.
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Shelton Payagala
Payagalage Don Shirley Shelton (born in 1944 in Hatton, Sri Lanka - died 23 June 2009) was a film director and writer who began as an acting instructor in the mid-1970s.
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Shyam Selvadurai
Shyam Selvadurai (born 12 February 1965) is a Sri Lankan Canadian novelist who wrote Funny Boy (1994), which won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, and Cinnamon Gardens (1998).
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Simon Navagattegama
Simon Navagattegama (September 15, 1940 – October 9, 2005) was a Sinhala novelist, Sinhala Radio Play writer, playwright and actor.
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Sinhalese language
Sinhalese, known natively as Sinhala (සිංහල; siṁhala), is the native language of the Sinhalese people, who make up the largest ethnic group in Sri Lanka, numbering about 16 million.
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Siri Gunasinghe
Siri Gunasinghe (Sinhala: Siri Gunasingha; 18 February 1925 -25 May 2017) was a Sri Lankan academic, Sanskritist, art historian, author and film maker.
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Sirilal Kodikara
Sirilal Kodikara is a novelist, poet, journalist, and radio play writer who writes in Sinhala.
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Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා; Tamil: இலங்கை Ilaṅkai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea.
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Sucharitha Gamlath
Sucharitha Gamlath (10 March 1934 – 30 March 2013) was a Veteran Professor of Sinhala, and a bright student of the Peradeniya University.
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Sugathapala de Silva
Sugathapala De Silva (4 August 1928 – 28 October 2002) was an acclaimed Sri Lankan dramatist and novelist, translator, radio play producer, and Sinhala Radio Play writer.
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Sunanda Mahendra
Kala Keerthi Sunanda Mahendra is a Sri Lankan writer and poet.
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Sunil Ariyaratne
Prof. Sunil Ariyaratne (born 1949) is a Sri Lankan scholar, film director, author, poet and a lyricist.
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Sunil Yapa
Sunil Yapa is a Sri Lankan American fiction writer and novelist.
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Sybil Wettasinghe
Kala Keerthi Sybil Wettasinghe is a veteran children's book writer and an illustrator in Sri Lanka.
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Tamil language
Tamil (தமிழ்) is a Dravidian language predominantly spoken by the Tamil people of India and Sri Lanka, and by the Tamil diaspora, Sri Lankan Moors, Burghers, Douglas, and Chindians.
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Thotagamuwe Sri Rahula Thera
Thotagamuwe Sri Rahula Thera (1408 - 1491) was a Buddhist monk and an eminent scholar, who lived in the 15th century in Sri Lanka.
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Tilak Jayaratne
Tilak Jayaratne (December 30, 1943 – September 7, 2012) was a Veteran broadcaster, media personnel, teacher and researcher and writer to Radio and television.
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Tissa Abeysekara
Tissa Ananda Abeysekara (7 May 1939 – 18 April 2009) was a Sri Lankan filmmaker, actor, writer, director, and screen playwright.
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V. V. Ganeshananthan
V.V. "Sugi" Ganeshananthan (born 1980) is a Sri Lankan American fiction writer, essayist, and journalist.
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W. A. Silva
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Wimalaratne Kumaragama
Wimalaratne Kumaragama (January 18, 1919 - December 30, 1962) was a prominent Sri Lankan poet, of the Colombo era.
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