Siri Gunasinghe

Siri Gunasinghe was born on 18 February 1925, in Ruwanwella according to some, in Galle according to others. Educated at a monk's school, then at Mahinda College in Galle and at the University of Ceylon, he defended in Paris a thesis on the technique of Indian painting, published in 1957. He taught at Peradeniya and in 1956 introduced free verse into Sinhala poetry, then left in 1970 for Canada, where he taught art history at the University of Victoria. He died in British Columbia on 25 May 2017.

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• CinemaSeven Seasසත් සමුදුරSiri Gunasinghe · 1967Cinema