Gunadasa Amarasekara

Gunadasa Amarasekara (Sinhala: ගුණදාස අමරසේකර) (b. 1929) is a Sri Lankan poet, novelist, critic and short story writer (Dharmadasa, 1987; Gunawardena, 2003) . He is considered one of the founding fathers of modern Sinhalese literature. Life events Born in 1929, Amarasekara grew up in Yatalamatta village in Galle (Gunawardena, 2003). He had his education at Nalanda College in Colombo and graduated from the Medical School at Peradeniya (Gunawardena, 2003). He did his postgraduate studies in Britain (Gunawardena, 2003). Amarasekara served as a director, at the Institute of Dentistry from 1971 to 1987 (Gunawardena, 2003). In the 1980s, he entered the arena of political philosophy as a proponent of Jathika Chintanaya [(loosely translated as National Consciousness) Gunawardena, 2003; Kestler, 2014]. Publications Novels # Karumakkarayo (The Wretched, 1955: this novel was made into a film by Tissa Abeysekara in 1980) # Yali Upannemi (I was born again, 1960) # Gandhabba Apadanaya (1969) # Asathya Kathawa…