Sri Lankan literature
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 Pāli, Tamil, and English). However, the languages used in ancient times were much different than the language used in Sri Lanka now.
Up to the present, short stories are a very important part of Sri Lankan literature; the output of Sinhalese short story writers is greater than that of the Tamil and English writers combined and has elicited a greater measure of critical analysis.
History
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List of names
Sinhala Writers
- Gunadasa Amarasekara
- Chandraratna Bandara
- Sugathapala de Silva
- Siri Gunasinghe
- Eric Illayapparachchi
- P.B Jayasekara
- K. Jayatillake
- Piyasena Kahandagamage
- Sirilal Kodikara
- Munidasa Kumaratunga
- Sunanda Mahendra
- Simon Navagattegama
- Ediriweera Sarachchandra
- Mahagama Sekara
- G. B. Senanayake
- W. A. Silva
- Ajith Thilakasena
- Sybil Wettasinghe
- Martin Wickramasinghe
Sinhala Poets
- Gurulugomi
- Thotagamuwe Sri Rahula Thera
- Kumaratunga Munidasa
- S. Mahinda Thero
- Sagara Palansooriya
- Wimalaratne Kumaragama
- Siri Gunasinghe
- Mahagama Sekara
- Gunadasa Amarasekara
- Parakrama Kodituwakku
- Eric Illayapparachchi
- Sunil Ariyaratne
- Lucien Bulathsinhala
- Saman Tilakasiri
- Rathna Sri Wijesinghe
- Veedagama maithree thero
Essayists and Nonfictional Writers
- Martin Wickramasinghe
- Ediriweera Sarachchandra
- Gunadasa Amarasekara
- Nalin de Silva
- Piyaseeli Wijegunasinghe
- Shelton Payagala
- Sucharitha Gamlath
- J B Disanayake
Sinhala Playwrights
- John de Silva
- Ediriweera Sarachchandra
- Sugathapala de Silva
- Sunanda Mahendra
- Simon Navagattegama
- Dayananda Gunawardena
- Henry Jayasena
- Dhamma Jagoda
- Namel Weeramuni
Sinhala Radio Play Writers
Sri Lankan Tamil authors
Sri Lankan Tamil poets
Sri Lankan and Sri Lankan diaspora authors who write in English
- Ru Freeman
- Pramudth D Rupasinghe
- Michael Ondaatje
- Christopher Ondaatje
- Nira Wickramasinghe
- Jayadeva Uyangoda
- Romesh Gunesekera
- Shyam Selvadurai
- SJ Sindu
- Nayomi Munaweera
- Sunil Yapa
- Tissa Abeysekara
- Regi Siriwardena
- Jean Arasanayagam
- Lishan Perera
- Rajiva Wijesinha
- Nihal De Silva
- V.V. Ganeshananthan
- Ru Freeman
- David Blacker
- VTGP Lingam
- Suwanda Sugunasiri
- Dilshy Banu
- Ravi Sathasivam
- Punyakante Wijenaike
- Roshi Fernando
See also
- Sri Lankan culture
- Henry Parker, British engineer who studied and compiled the oral literature of Sri Lanka