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The following is a list of Sri Lankan writers of all types. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
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Sunil Santha was a Sri Lankan composer, singer and lyricist. Known as the "Father of the Modern Sinhala Music" [1] He was pivotal in the development of Sinhala music and folk songs in the mid to late 1940s and early 1950s. [2] [3] He composed the beloved soundtracks to Lester James Peries' films Rekava and Sandesaya in 1956 and 1960. In a later ...
Karunaratne Abeysekera (3 June 1930 – 20 April 1983) was one of Sri Lanka's most famous Sinhala broadcasters. He was also a poet and songwriter and was widely admired for his excellent command of Sinhala. [2] Abeysekera wrote the lyrics to over 2,000 songs, a record for a lyricist in Sri Lanka.
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The 47-year-old follows Sri Lankan-born Michael Ondaatje who won the prize in 1992 for The English Patient.
Nimal Mendis is a Sri Lankan singer/songwriters who has won many awards for his music. Mendis recorded 22 songs, eight of them for the Decca Records label in London. He has written songs now regarded as classics in South Asia—including ' Master Sir' about Colonial Ceylon.