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My favourite author is Mr. Martin Wickramasinhe. He is known as the greatest writer of Sri Lanka.

He was born in 1890. He was the only boy of his family. He studied at Bounavista College in Galle. He became a famous writer by reading books.

He has written more than one hundred books. His first book was Leela, Madoldoova is a famous children’s novel written by him. He died in 1976.

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Martin Wickramasinghe was born in Koggala, in the South of Sri Lanka, in 1890. He studied Sinhalese as a young child but later learned English, in which he became fluent. When his father died when he was eleven he returned to the Sinhalese school. He left school aged sixteen and worked as a book-keeper. After his mother’s death, he took up writing, publishing his first novel in his early twenties. He subsequently worked as a journalist and later became a newspaper editor. His best-known novel, ගම්පෙරළිය (The Uprooted) Part 1: (The Village) was published in 1944 and is considered the first serious Sri Lankan novel. He continued to write, published literary criticism, novels and poetry. He travelled extensively, visiting the United Kingdom, India, China, Cuba and the Soviet Union. He died in 1976.

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1940 අපේ ගම (Lay Bare the Roots) 1944 ගම්පෙරළිය (The Uprooted) Part 1: (The Village) 1947 මඩොල් දූව (Madol Doova) 1950 Sinhalese Literature 1951 The Mysticism of Lawrence 1952 Aspects of Sinhalese Culture 1956 The Buddhist: Jataka Stories and the Russian Novel 1956 විරාගය (The Way of the Lotus Viragaya) 1963 Landmarks of Sinhalese Literature 1964 Buddhism and Culture 1970 Selected Short Stories 1971 Revolution and Evolution 1972 Buddhism and Art 1975 Sinhala Language and Culture

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Martin Wickramasinghe was one of the Sri Lankan authors whose work has benefited from international and national recognition and his legacy to the literature and social sciences has always been valued. His work is considered of great quality, modernistic and original. He adopts a critical vision to the society in which he lives but this was not the only thing that brought him wide recognition.

Wickramasinghe showed a great interest in various areas of the natural and social sciences and he had contributed to the development of the Sri Lankan literature. He wrote literature for children, novels, short stories and few drama books. Also, he showed interest in areas such as history, religion, philosophy, travel and even biology. However, the greatest part of his work was devoted to literary criticism, one of the ways he seemed to appreciated best as giving him the opportunity to contribute to the course that the Sri Lankan literature was to follow.

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I believe one thing about books.It's good meterials about find out meaning of life.I don't know why nowadays young generation most close social media than books. I am not blaming to generation.But still I believe the foundation of life most strength and strong with books.

So I am proudly telling I am book lover and still I got small chance for spend time with books, I will never miss it.

This is about my favourite author.Still I remembered when I was child I read his book and untill finished that novel I didn't consider about writer. Thats novel was deeply touch my heart and finally its become craziest and I found almost more than 75% books of that author. Finally he become my favourite author Mr Martin Wikramasinghe and that novel was before I mentioned" Madol Duwa".I think I was read it more than 10 times.

The protagonist is a somewhat rebellious child who loves adventure and his best friend is the child servant in their house. According to the story, Upali Ginivella and his friend are trying to live alone on a forested and deserted small island. It all happens at the end of the 19th century and the story revolves around this event.

As mentioned earlier, my favorite book he wrote was Madol Duwa. In short, that book Actually I wonder Madol Duwa novel how catching the human mind. Even if you are old Its touched the heart from way of writing pattern and explorations of life in childhood.Any way this is story about two children and hopefully everybody love this novel.

Briefly on the life of Martin Wickramasinghe, he was a great Sri Lankan writer who lived in the 20th century.

He has published 14 novels and 104 short stories. His books have been translated into English, Tamil, Chinese, Russian and European. He has won numerous local and foreign awards.

Martin Wikramasinghe has special magical writing style and he can made clear picture about stories.Automatically our mind goes to characters and after that we can feel the real taste of entire the story of novel.Thats why I told he has magical writing style.

Finally, if that was the foremost writer Martin Wickramasinghe rendered service as excellent enrichment to the art of Sri Lankan literature.This great author passed away on January 23, 1967.

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Martin Wickramasinghe

Martin Wickramasinghe was a great Sri Lankan writer of the 20th century. He was born is 1890 at Koggala, in the Southern Province, close to Galle. Martin Wickramasinghe published 14 novels and 104 short stories. His first novel was 'Leela' published in 1914. Among his famous novels, which were made into films are 'Gamperaliya,' 'Viragaya,' 'Madolduwa,' 'Kaliyugaya' and 'Yuganthaya.' His books have been translated in to English, Tamil, Chinese, Russian and many other European languages. He won many local and foreign prizes and awards. He died on January 23, 1976. His ashes are interred in a grass covered mound to the right of the house called the 'Samadhi.'

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Top 10 Greatest Novels of Martin Wickramasinghe

August 13, 2011 By Achintha Bandara Leave a Comment

“Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree….” Ezra pound- How to read

I remember, when I was in my childhood when people ask me, ‘Who is your favorite writer and what is the book you love the most’. Then the answer was simple. It was Martin Wickramasinghe and the book was Madol Duuwa.

The milestone of Modern Sinhala Literature

He is a good storyteller, an inspiring thinker, and a good philosopher as proved in his work, which is more than hundreds of books and thousands of paper articles. Though Wickramasinghe is considered in the academic crowd, as a good philosopher, he is most popular as the great novelist/ author/ writer of Sinhalese literature arena.

Out of the the numerous great books published by him in Sinhalese or in English, I have selected ten greatest and most popular novels by this inspirational writer. They are: Rohini (1929) Ape Gama (1940) Gamperaliya (1944) Madol Duuwa (1947) Yuganthaya (1949) Viragaya (1956) Kaliyugaya (1957) Upandaa Sita (1961) Kaluwara Gedara (1963) Bawa Tharanaya (1973)

Madol Duuwa (1947) – As the most popular book of Martin Wickramasinghe, it plays the role of the most abundant Sri Lankan novel. Upali Giniwelle and his servant friend Jinna play the main roles of this novel as notorious youngsters who explore their lives outrunning their parents. After make off from home Upali and Jinna find the isolated small island Madol Duuwa, situated in the middle of Koggala tank. They cultivate this land and gradually become standard businesspersons. The story of these two youngsters has been created by Wickramasinghe as an adventure which enchants the reader till the end. More than a half a century of prints have been published so far as it is highly accepted by the Sri Lankan litterateurs.

Rohini (1937) – is the book that firstly written out of these 10 books which carries a historical epic. The legendry affair between Athula and Rohini is the subject of this novel. Athula, a war hero from the Army of King Dutugemunu, falls in love with the young princess Rohini, whose father is a minister of King Elara. Princess Rohini is also proposed to her father’s diplomatic friend Mithra, from the same Elara’s party.Yet there is a romantic story flows through the novel Wickramasinghe tend to emphasis the critical political issues hidden behind as well. The novel is also recommended as the Sinhalese Literature fiction for the Junior School Certificate Examination in 1937.

Ape Gama (1940) – the typical soulful explanation of the rural life and the atmosphere is also one of the prime books written by Martin Wickramasinghe. When reading this book you will feel how smoothly he has described the every single experience of his village life. Even though this is mostly identified as a children’s book it entertains the other readers as well. I highly recommend this book for all kinds of readers, as they can enjoy it thwarting all barriers.

Gamperaliya (1944) – is the first book of Wickramasinghe’s most popular Trilogy (Tun Eduthu Nawakatha). Based on the rural feudalistic family of Muhandiram Kaisaaruwatte, this novel flows over three generations accomplishing writer’s needs of character development. The way that historical politics functions on the rural feudalistic families and the emergence of a new middle class society is drastically described in this novel wrapped in a dramatic story. Piyal the benchmark of this new social class gradually attacks this feudalistic society and the relationship between him and Nanda; the daughter of Kaisaaruwatte plays the transitional situation of this class struggle. Tissa; brother of Nanda, is the linking factor to the trilogy as he appears in each three novels.

Kaliyugaya (1957) – the second of the seriescan be identified as the best explanation ever appeared in explaining the social class transition during the post- colonization stage. Social uplifting of the newly formed social class consists of feudalistic Nanda and lower middle class Piyal with the presence of the money factor is indicated in this particular novel. Therefore it would be really interesting to you to understand what has really happened in the Sri Lankan context during the post- colonization period.

Yuganthaya (1949) – as the final part of the trilogy is the best book that shed light on the collapsing of this upper middle class Sri Lankan society and emergence of a new capitalistic society. Based on the social struggle between upper middle class Saviman Kabalana (Son- In- law of Piyal and Nanda) and the venture capitalist Wiharahena from Deniyaya this novel flows under numerous social disputes. This novel ends with the formation of modern political tradition which consists of English spoken, foreign educated capitalistic people who had the socialistic ideas, like Malin Kabalana. And also Yuganthaya explains the polarization of the human political and social interests based on their political ideology using the characters Malin Kabalana and Aravinda Wiharahena. If you are interested in Sri Lankan political transitions you should read this book with reference to the day to day political stereotypes.

Viragaya (1956) -is the novel that considered as one of the best novels that explain persons’ obscure characteristics ever written in Sri Lankan modern literature. Aravinda, Bathi and Sarojini are the main characters of the novel. In Viragaya, Wickramasinghe tries to explain their characteristics which are ambiguous, mystic and complicated. Aravinda is indisputably accepted as the typical Sri Lankan youth character that appears in a novel.

Upandaa Sita (1961) – Autobiography of late Martin Wickramasinghe is one of the other books that you should read. Even though it is a personal experience book, it is highly recommended as a masterpiece to the life style management. Experience from his village, through the carrier as a journalist and most importantly influence of own experience in his literature work is included in this biography. Therefore it is most similar to a Diary- novel such as La Nuste by Sean Paul Sarthe.

Kaluwara Gedara (1963) – If you are interested more in the social class struggle of Sri Lanka you might also need to read Kaluwara Gedara. Kaluwara Gedara is too based on a rural family and its development during decades with the presence of social, cultural, political and economic circumstances. As in many works of Martin Wickramasinghe, this book is also keen in explaining the social status of a certain period of the Post- colonization period, as one of the heavy transitional period that appeared in Sri Lankan social history.

Bawa Tharanaya (1973) – is one of the most controversial novels which caused a series of heavy arguments between scholarly traditions. It is mainly based on the life of Prince Siddhartha, before and after of renunciation of household life. Considering Lord Buddha as a human being that proven higher ideological and philosophical values, Wickramasinghe tends to create his own explanation about the Buddhist culture. Therefore this novel has been confronted numerous arguments and stigmatizations by the conventional Buddhist society. Yet it is argued by some of the scholars, it is undoubtedly accepted by the readers as one of the practical readings about the Buddhist concepts.

You may also like to read my other post on Greatest Sri Lankan Books (Novels) of all time

Achinthya Bandara is a final year B.A. Sinhala Special degree undergraduate of University of Colombo. He also studied in La Trobe University in Victoria, Australia.

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