Sri Lankan Literature

Biography Patrick Fernando (1931 -1983) – a Sri Lankan poet who won international recognition – is considered as one of the accomplished poets [...]

Biography Suvimalee Karunaratna was born in Sri Lanka in 1939 and received her early education in Washington, D.C. and in Colombo. While living in Rangoon, where [...]

Biography Anne Ranasinghe (born Anneliese Katz; 2 October 1925 – 17 December 2016) was a Jewish-German born Sri Lankan English language poet. She is considered [...]

Biography Lakdasa Wikkramasinha (Sinhala: ලක්දාස වික්‍රමසිංහ, 1941–1978) was a Sri Lankan poet who wrote in English and Sinhala, and is known for his fusion of the two languages. Wikkramasinha was [...]

Biography Jayaprakash Sittampalam Tissainayagam (known as J. S. Tissainayagam, Tamil: ஜெயப்பிரகாஷ் சிற்றம்பலம் திசைநாயகம்) is a Sri Lankan journalist. He was detained by the Terrorism Investigation Division of [...]

Biography Ernest Thalayasingam MacIntyre, (a.k.a. Macintyre, Ernest Thalayasingam) (born 26 September 1934) is a Sri Lankanplaywright of the English language, who has been active in the Sri [...]

Biography Thiagarajah Arasanayagam was born in Jaffna, where he was brought up and educated before moving to St. Joseph’s College, Colombo. He comes [...]