W. A. Silva

Wellawatte Arachchige Abraham Silva was born on 16 January 1890 in Wellawatte, near Colombo. He received only an elementary education in Sinhala, then studied grammar and Sanskrit with the monk Pelane Vajiragnana. An office clerk from the end of 1906, he wrote in his spare time and published a first novel the following year. He edited the journal Siri Sara from 1919 to 1923, the weekly Lanka Samaya in 1933, then the monthly Nuwana from 1940 to 1946. He died on 3 May 1957 in Wellawatte; the house built by his father, which he had never left, is now a museum.

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• Novelකැලෑ හඳW. A. Silva · 1933not translated into EnglishLiterature