Martin Wickramasinghe

      Martin Wickramasinghe 

Lama hewage Don  Mrtin Wickramasinghe commonly Martin wickramasinghe, MBE (29May1890- 23 July 1976) was a Sri Lankan author. His books have been translated into several languages. Wickramasinghe is often acclaimed as thefather of modern sinhala literature.



Martin wickramasingh.
Wickramasinghe was bornon 29 May 1890, in the town of  kaggala (Galle District) , as the only son of Lamahewage Don Bastian Wickramasinghe (father) and  Magalle Balapitiya Liyanage Thochchohamy (mothe)
Ah the age of flve wickramsinghe was taught the Sinhala alphabet, at home and in the village temple, by a monk Andiris Gurunnanse. He also learned the Devanagari script and could recite by memory long sections of the Hitopadesa. 


After two    years he was taken to a veranacular school where he prospered until 1897 when he was sent to an English school in Galle called Buona Vista. In the two years spent at the school wickrmasinghe became fluent in English as  well as Latin. When his father died in 1901, he returned to a vernacular school in Ahangama and subsequently lost interest in

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