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Sri Lankan literature is the literary tradition of Sri Lanka. The largest part of Sri Lankan literature was written in the Sinhala language, but there is a considerable number of works in other languages used in Sri Lanka over the millennia (including Tamil, Pāli, and English). However, the languages used in ancient times were very different ...
The State Literary Award is a set of annual literary prizes by the Government of Sri Lanka under several categories. The awards cover fiction , poetry , translations , songs and cover designs. Works from Sinhala , Tamil and English language are reviewed.
Its stated purpose is to showcase the best writing about the South Asian region and bring it to a global audience. Only the writers from South Asian Countries are honored for their work. The south Asian countries in focus include the following: Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.
South Asian literature has a long history, having some of the oldest recorded pieces of literature, dating back to the later stages of the Bronze Age in India.Transmitted in Sanskrit, Rig veda is an ancient and sacred collection of Hindu texts originally composed between 1500 BCE and 1200 BCE by Indo-Aryan tribes that were migrating from modern Afghanistan to northern India. [3]
Sri Lanka in fiction (9 C, ... Works by Sri Lankan writers (4 C) Sri Lankan writers (24 C, 21 P) Pages in category "Sri Lankan literature"
4.4 Bangladesh literature. ... 4.48 Sri Lanka. ... This list of literary awards from around the world is an index to articles about notable literary awards.
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The earliest extant Sri Lankan Tamil literature survives from the academies of the Sangam age dated from 200 BCE. [2] Īḻattup pūtaṉtēvaṉār was one of the earliest known native classical Eelam Tamil poets from the Sangam period, hailing from Manthai, Mannar District, Sri Lanka. [3]