Martin Wickramasinghe

Martin Wickramasinghe was born on 29 May 1890 in Koggala, near Galle. He learned his letters from the monks, spent only a few years at school, in Galle and then in Ahangama, and first worked as a clerk. A columnist for the daily Dinamina under a pseudonym, he edited the weekly Silumina in 1931, then the Dinamina from 1932 to 1946, before living by his pen. He left some forty essays on Buddhism, art, criticism and the history of the island. He died on 23 July 1976; his birthplace in Koggala houses a museum.

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• NovelThe Way of the LotusවිරාගයMartin Wickramasinghe · 1956Literature