Vm ranga biography of martin

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Martin Wickramasinghe is one of the best, most read and highly acclaimed Sinhala writers of Sri Lanka. May 29th was his birthday. Martin Wickramasinghe was born in and died in Professionally, he was a writer and a journalist. He was the famous editor-in-chief of Silumina newspaper published by Lake House owned by veteran D.

The price of the newspaper some time in the mid 20th century was ten cents and the social tagline for Silumina tell the story. People called it the University of Ten Cents. The aim of this article is not writing his biography or analysing his work. He was a master in his trade and also an ordinary citizen with interesting character traits.

Martin was a man who had migrated to Colombo from Malalagama, Koggala in Matara district. He lived in Mount Lavinia and Nawala in Colombo city outskirts.

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He was educated only up to Grade 7 in Bonavista College, Galle. Wickramasinghe had five offspring and at least two of them were popular. Wickramasinghe gave interesting names to his fictional characters. Those names were ahead of the trends of the time. He has done the same with his own kids too.