Ediriweera Sarachchandra

Ediriweera Sarachchandra was born on 3 June 1914 in Dodanduwa, in the Galle district. Trained in Indian philosophy and music at Santiniketan, in India, then a philosophy graduate of the University of London, he taught at the University of Ceylon, then at Peradeniya, where he became professor emeritus in 1982, and was Sri Lanka's ambassador to France from 1974 to 1977. A playwright, novelist and critic, he received the Kumaran Asan Award in 1983 and the Ramon Magsaysay Award. He died in Colombo on 16 August 1996.

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