G. D. L. Perera

G. D. L. Perera was born on 26 June 1935 in the Ratnapura district. He staged his first plays in the mid-fifties with the Kala Pela troupe, which he founded with friends, and his play Thotupola received the prize for best production in 1964. A British Council scholarship took him to London in 1969 to study cinema; he then worked there in cinema and television, and later contributed to the BBC's Sinhala-language programme. Having returned to the island in 2002, he died in London on 14 February 2021.

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• Cinemaදහසක් සිතුවිලිG. D. L. Perera · 1968Cinema