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The novel depicts the crumbling of traditional village life under the pressure of modernisation. Gamperaliya (1944) is widely held as the first Sinhalese novel with a serious intent that compares, in content and technique, with the great novels of modern world literature. Through the 1940s Wickramasinghe dabbled with the double role of literary critic and creative writer. Shortly thereafter he began a campaign to raise literary standards for the Sinhalese reading public with work such as Sahityodaya Katha (1932), Vichara Lipi (1941), Guttila Geetaya (1943) and Sinhala Sahityaye Nageema (1946) in which he evaluated the traditional literally heritage according to set rules of critical criteria formed by synthesising the best in Indian and western traditions of literary criticism. His literary career began with the novel Leela (1914) and an anthology of essays on literary criticism, Shastriya Lekhana (1919). In 1932, he was appointed editor of Dinamina, serving until his resignation in 1946.

In 1931, he returns to ANCL as the editor of Sinhala weekend paper Silumina. In 1927, he leaves Dinamina to join Lakmina. Wijewardena's Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited (ANCL). He then joins the editorial staff of Dinamina, owned by the press baron D. In 1916, Martin Wickramasinghe starts to write to the Sinhala daily Dinamina under the penname Hethu Vaadi (Rationalist) and pens a controversial series called 'Plants and Animals'. He then became a book-keeper at Cornelis Silva's shop in Batticaloa. Following the 1915 Sinhalese-Muslim riots, John Silva's agency was closed and he returned to Koggala. Following year he left the shop to join a commissions agency run by John Silva. Having left school, at the age of 16 years Wickramasinghe found work as a book-keeper in a shop in Colombo owned by Carolis Silva in 1906. When his father died in 1901, he returned to a vernacular school in Ahangama and subsequently lost interest in schooling.

In the two years spent at the school Wickramasinghe became fluent in English as well as Latin. After two years he was taken to a vernacular school where he prospered until 1897 when he was sent to an English school in Galle called Buona Vista. He also learned the Devanagari script and could recite by memory long sections of the Hitopadesa. Early life īorn Lama Hewage Don Martin Wickramasinghe, on, in the town of Koggala ( Galle District), as the only son of Lamahewage Don Bastian Wickramasinghe (father) and Magalle Balapitiya Liyanage Thochchohamy (mother).Īt the age of five Wickramasinghe was taught the Sinhala alphabet, at home and in the village temple, by a monk, Andiris Gurunnanse. Wickramasinghe is often acclaimed as the father of modern Sinhala literature. His books have been translated into several languages. Lama Hewage Don Martin Wickramasinghe, MBE (commonly known as Martin Wickramasinghe) ( Sinhala: මාර්ටින් වික්‍රමසිංහ) ( – 23 July 1976) was a Sri Lankan journalist and author.

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