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    There is a lot our Sri Lankan writers could learn from Chekhov's work before advancing into the use of literary techniques such as non-linear narratives and application of de-construction, or half understood theories on post-modernism in their literary works. Chekhov had a Sri Lankan connection! On his way from a trip to Sakhalin, Chekhov ...
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    We have also introduced the work of eminent Asian writers such as Edwin Thumboo and the works by Sri Lankan born Malaysian writer Lloyd Fernando. Montage endeavours to feature other international literary festivals and writers from all corners of the globe to establish much-needed connectivity between Sri Lankan literati with their ...
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    It has come out of John de Silva's era and entered into the era of revival in the post independent Sri Lanka. That period was marked by a series of adaptations like 'Kapuwa Kapothi', spearheaded by Prof. Ediriweera Sarachchandra in the heydays of the University of Peradeniya.
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    W. A de Silva (1892-1957) was one of the major Sri Lankan writers who wrote over 20 books since 1909. The rich corpus of novels which were extremely popular of his time, included Siriyalata (1909), Lakshmi (1922), Higanakolla (1923), Kala Handa (1936), Radala Piliruva( 1936) and Pasal Taruniya (1939).
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    Dissatisfied with his own translations and adaptations of the plays of Moliere, Gogol and Chekhov (done in collaboration with E.F.C. Ludowyke and A.P. Gunaratne) Sarachchandra after studying the Japanese folk theatre turned to our own nadagam, kolam and sokari plays and the thovil ceremonies to seek the roots of an indigenous theatre which ...
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    When you read the literary works of Prof. Sarachchandra, Martin Wickremasinghe and Gunadasa Amerasekara, you find the kind of language they use is a direct evolution of the ancient or medieval Sinhala literature which is a very rich language. ... Sri Lankan writers knew several languages such as Pali, Sanskrit, Tamil, Malayalam, Urdu and ...
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    Gunadasa Amarasekara is a widely acclaimed Sinhala poet, novelist and essayist. He is a formidable Sinhalese cultural intellectual, a living legend in his own right, who shaped the contours of the national consciousness in the post-independent Sri Lanka through his enduring literary legacy and social criticisms.
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    Most of them always tried to study, review or appreciate the Sinhala novel and Sinhala poetry by the standards set by the western writers, and always tried to see what western influence could be seen in the Sri Lankan writing, believing that the Sinhala and Tamil writers were not capable of producing their own creative works. Our writers have ...
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    Although the Sri Lankan literary landscape has not seen a paradigm shift from the present status quo, it has seen some noted developments both in the fields of linguistics and literature. ... some of the award-wining authors seemed to have pulled strings to get crony amateur critics to review their substandard works in newspaper columns and ...
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    It is important to examine the pivotal role that Dayasena Gunasinghe had played at a critical phase of Sinhalese literature and Sinhalese journalism as a writer, poet, columnist, opinion leader and a master translator capturing the quintessential characteristics of a watershed of socio-economic transformation in Sri Lanka.

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