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Piyadasa Sirisena

Died in 1946

Piyadasa Sirisena was born in 1875 and first made a career in the Colombo press, before running his own Sinhala-language newspaper, the Sinhala Jathiya. All his work, articles and books, serves a single cause: the revival of Buddhism and the defence of Sinhalese customs against those introduced by British rule. He published some twenty novels over the course of his career and died in Colombo on 22 May 1946.

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