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• Essayධම්පියා අටුවා ගැටපදයAnonymous · 930not translated into EnglishA scholar's tool of the tenth century, written to help read in Pali a Buddhist commentary that everyone knew.Literature
• NarrativeඅමාවතුරGurulugomi · 1200not translated into EnglishA life of the Buddha in classical prose, written in a Sinhala almost free of learned borrowings.Literature
• Narrativeබුත්සරණVidyachakravarti · 1200not translated into EnglishA devotional prose work of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, written to edify ordinary people.Literature
• TalePujavaliya: A Sinhala Classic of the 13th CenturyපූජාවලියMayurapada Buddhaputra Thera · 1266A devotional compilation of the thirteenth century, written for the learned and the unlearned alike, whose last chapter has become a source for the history of the island.Literature
• Narrativeදඹදෙණි අස්නAnonymous · 1270not translated into EnglishAn inventory of the royal capital in the thirteenth century, street by street and trade by trade.Literature
• Chronicleඑළු අත්තනගලු වංසයAnonymous · 1380not translated into EnglishThe legend of a king who refused to shed blood, and the history of the monastery born on the site of his retreat.Literature
• Taleසද්ධර්මාලංකාරයJayabahu Dharmakirti · 1400not translated into EnglishA large collection of edifying tales, drawn in the fourteenth century from a model written in Pali.Literature
• Novelஅசன்பே சரித்திரம்M. C. Siddi Lebbe · 1885not translated into EnglishA Muslim adventure tale of the late nineteenth century, written in Tamil in Ceylon, set between Egypt and India.Literature
• NovelVasanavantha Pavula saha Kalakanni PavulaIsaac de Silva · 1888not translated into EnglishA Christian narrative of the nineteenth century, written to offer the Sinhalese another model of couple and household.Literature
• NovelමීනාA. Simon de Silva · 1905not translated into EnglishA love novel published in 1905, at the moment when prose fiction was establishing itself in the Sinhala language.Literature
• Novelජයතිස්ස සහ රොස්ලින්Piyadasa Sirisena · 1906not translated into EnglishA novel from the beginning of the century, written to defend the Buddhist faith against the Christian mission.Literature
• TaleVillage Folk-Tales of CeylonHenry Parker · 1910Village tales noted down by an irrigation works engineer, at the beginning of the century.Literature
• Novelකැලෑ හඳW. A. Silva · 1933not translated into EnglishA popular novel of the thirties, divided between Colombo and the countryside, at the time when the island's society is changing.Literature
• Poetryසුදෝ සුදුSagara Palansuriya · 1945not translated into EnglishA village love story set in verse in simple language, as Sinhala poetry turns to the countryside and the poor.Literature
• Short storiesපලිගැනීමG. B. Senanayake · 1946A collection of 1946 in which free verse enters Sinhalese literature.Literature
• CinemaThe Broken Promiseකඩවුණු පොරොන්දුවJyotish Sinha · 1947The sung melodrama with which Sinhalese talking cinema began, in 1947.Cinema
• Cinemaඅම්මාSirisena Wimalaweera · 1949The first film of a Sinhalese theatre man, shot in a Madras studio two years after the beginnings of sound film in Sinhala.Cinema
• NovelThe Way of the LotusවිරාගයMartin Wickramasinghe · 1956A man who keeps apart from what his family and his milieu expect of him, told from the inside in the mid-fifties.Literature
• CinemaLine of DestinyරේඛාවLester James Peries · 1956A village on the island thrown into turmoil by a prediction and by a healing gift attributed to a child.Cinema
• TheatreManameමනමේEdiriweera Sarachchandra · 1956A prince, a princess and the king of the forest people: the play that founded modern Sinhala theatre.Literature
• Cinemaපරසතුමල්Gamini Fonseka · 1966A rich village landowner and the woman who escapes him, in the countryside of the island in the sixties.Cinema
• CinemaSeven Seasසත් සමුදුරSiri Gunasinghe · 1967The poverty of the fishermen of the south coast, filmed with few words and without the dances or fights of popular cinema.Cinema
• Cinemaදහසක් සිතුවිලිG. D. L. Perera · 1968A 1968 film about office life and the love affairs of young employees, directed by a man of the theatre.Cinema
• Cinemaහන්තානේ කතාවSugathapala Senarath Yapa · 1969Student love affairs in the hills of Kandy, towards the end of the 1960s.Cinema
• NovelGirayaPunyakante Wijenaike · 1971An aristocratic provincial household, told from the inside and in English by the young wife who enters it.Literature
• NovelOut of the Darknessඅසත්‍ය කතාවක්Gunadasa Amarasekara · 1977A policeman caught between his career and the death of his student brother, in the time of the uprisings of Sinhalese youth.Literature
• Poetryප්‍රබුද්ධMahagama Sekera · 1977not translated into EnglishThe last great poem by a Sinhalese lyricist and poet, published just after his death.Literature
• CinemaThe Wasps Are Hereබඹරු ඇවිත්Dharmasena Pathiraja · 1978A fishing community whose hierarchies are shaken by money coming from the town, in the 1970s.Cinema
• CinemaThe Girlsගැහැනු ළමයිSumitra Peries · 1978A poor young village woman and the love she refuses, in a society where rank decides everything.Cinema
• CinemaThe HuntදඩයමVasantha Obeysekera · 1983A liaison between a village woman and a man from the city, based on a real case from the late fifties.Cinema
• Cinemaආදර හසුනH. D. Premaratne · 1986An anonymous letter and the jealousy of an old soldier, in the Sinhalese cinema that was then seeking a path between art and the public.Cinema
• CinemaවිරාගයTissa Abeysekera · 1987A man who gives up what is expected of him, based on a major Sinhala book of the fifties.Cinema
• NovelFunny BoyShyam Selvadurai · 1994A Tamil boy in Colombo discovers who he is, on the eve of ethnic violence: Shyam Selvadurai's first novel.Literature
• NovelReefRomesh Gunesekera · 1994A young cook in the service of a marine biologist, in the Sri Lanka of the sixties: Romesh Gunesekera's first novel.Literature
• CinemaDeath on a Full Moon Dayපුරහඳ කළුවරPrasanna Vithanage · 1997An old blind man faces the sealed coffin that the army sends back to the village, in the midst of the civil war.Cinema
• CinemaSarojaසරෝජාSomaratne Dissanayake · 2000Two little girls, one Tamil, the other Sinhalese, at the height of the civil war.Cinema
• CinemaThis Is My Moonමේ මගේ සඳයිAsoka Handagama · 2000A Sinhalese deserter and a Tamil woman in a village waiting for its soldiers: the war seen from behind the lines by Asoka Handagama.Cinema

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