His first novel was ‘Leela’ published in 1909. Q: How do you value Martin Wickramasinghe’s literary service to Sinhala literature?Ī: Right from the outset, Wickramasinghe was a complete writer. Kulathilaka Kumarasinghe is a Senior Professor and Dean of Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, and a critic and translator in his own right. Kulathilaka Kumarasinghe to discuss his immense service to the Sinhala literature. This literary genius’ 46th death anniversary fell on July 23, and the Sunday Observer spoke to Prof. Still his new manuscripts are being printed by the Martin Wickramasinghe Trust. His literary spans from fiction to poetry, criticism to autobiography, science to mysticism, religion to rationalism, nationalism to socialism, archaeology to anthropology, and journalism to philosophy. Along with ‘Gamperaliya’ and two others its extensions - ‘Kali Yugaya’ (Age of Kali) and ‘Yugantaya’ (End of Era) – he also brought about the first trilogy in Sinhala. The author of more than 80 books, his first realistic novel in Sinhala, ‘Gamperaliya’ (Uprooted) in 1944, as well as the first formal literary criticism in Sinhala, ‘Sinhala Sahityaye Negima’ (Landmarks of Sinhalese Literature) in 1946. Martin Wickramasinghe is the pioneer of modern Sinhala literature.
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