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Amba Yaluwo (Sinhala: අඹ යාලුවෝ, lit. 'Best Friends') is a 1957 novel by Sri Lankan author Tikiri Bandara Ilangaratne. [1] [2] [3] The novel has been translated into multiple languages with the English translation by Seneviratne B. Aludeniya being published by Sarasavi Publishers in 1998.
Jayasekara in 2010. P. B. Jayasekara (Sinhala: පි.බි.ජයසේකර), also known as Premathilaka Jayasekara, is a Sri Lankan short story writer and translator.. His short story, kotiya (Sinhala: කොටියා) was awarded the first place at the Ravaya (Sinhala: රාවය) literary festivals in 1993 and Daruduka (Sinhala: දරුදුක) won the first place at the ...
Madol Doova (Sinhala: මඩොල් දූව is a children's novel and coming-of-age story written by Sri Lankan writer Martin Wickramasinghe and first published in 1947. . The book recounts the misadventures of Upali Giniwella and his friends on the Southern coast of Sri Lanka during the 189
Apē Gama (Sinhala:අපේ ගම, Tamil:எங்கள் கிராமம்) (lit. Our Village) [1] is a semi-autobiographical book by Sri Lankan author Martin Wickramasinghe detailing the narrator's experiences as a child in Southern Province, Sri Lanka. Initially published in 1940, [1] it was translated into English in 1968 as Lay ...
G.B. Senanayake is considered as the writer who paid special attention to the artistic side of short stories and developed Sinhala short stories from a skilled aspect. Senanayake improved Sinhala short stories as a pleasing and flexible medium. Especially language and structure were more polished in G.B. Senanayake's works.
Yuganthaya (Sinhala: යුගාන්තය "The End of an Era" or "Destiny") is a novel by Sri Lankan writer Martin Wickremasinghe which was first published in 1949. It is the third and last part of Wickramasinghe's trilogy that began with Gamperaliya and was followed by Kaliyugaya.
Guththila Kawya (Sinhala: ගුත්තිල කාව්ය, Anglicized: Guttila Kāvya) is a book of poetry written in the period of the Kingdom of Kotte (1412-1597) by Weththewe Thero. [ 1 ] The book is based on a story of previous birth of Gautama Buddha mentioned on Guththila Jataka in Jataka tales of Gautama Buddha.
Kala Keerthi Sybil Wettasinghe (Sinhala: සිබිල් වෙත්තසිංහ) (31 October 1927 – 1 July 2020) was a children's book writer and an illustrator in Sri Lanka. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Considered as the doyen of children's literature in Sri Lanka, Wettasinghe has produced more than 200 children's books which have been translated ...