A lonely writer who went to world literature
Sri Lanka, July 11 -- If someone considers Sinhala short story writers in Sri Lanka, the first name after Martin Wickramasinghe that comes into mind is G.B. Senanayake. He is the writer who developed Sinhala short story to its artistic stage focusing on the structure. He created an artistic language to portray the present experiences, and highlighted the importance of poetic styles in short story. In other words, he found a new short story genre in between prose and verse. Besides that, he is the pioneering Sinhala poet in Sri Lanka who found free verse poetry or 'Nisandes'. This great writer's 108th birth anniversary falls on this July 13, and we thought to read his literature with regard to his life.
His early life
G.B. Senanayake or ...
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