Mahanama Rajapaksha (1913 – 16 November 1968), who wrote under the pseudonym Maya Ranjan, was a prominent Sinhala writer and schoolteacher from Sri Lanka.[1][2]

His magnum opus Digaamadulle Aashcharyaya (Sinhala: දිගාමඬුල්ලේ ආශ්චර්යය, lit. 'The Enchantment of Digaamadulla'), published in 1957, was important to Sri Lankan literature and established him the country's pioneering wildlife non-fiction writer.[3]

He also translated Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe into Sinhala.[4][5]

Publications

Own work

  • Digaamadulle Aashcharyaya (දිගාමඬුල්ලේ ආශ්චර්යය/ The Enchantment of Digaamadulla)
  • Pitisara Minissu (පිටිසර මිනිස්සු/ Rural Folks)
  • Mage Raajyaya (මගේ රාජ්‍යය/ My Kingdom)
  • Ape Raajyaya (අපේ රාජ්‍යය/ Our Kingdom)
  • Kalisama saha Sukumari (කලිසම සහ සුකුමාරි/ Sukumari's Pants)
  • Weediya Bandara (වීදිය බණ්ඩාර)
  • Neela (නීලා)
  • Kumaraya saha Ran Menika (කුමාරයා සහ රං මැණිකා/ The Prince and Ran Menika)
  • Heenen gae suwandha (හීනෙන් ගෑ සුවඳ/ Dreamed Fragrance)
  • Sahodarayo denna (සහෝදරයෝ දෙන්නා/ Brothers)
  • Pandukhabaya (පණ්ඩුකාභය)
  • Prema Poojawa (ප්‍රේම පූජාව/ Romantic devotion)
  • Atalle upan Kumariya (අටල්ලේ උපන් කුමරිය/ The Princess who was born in Atalla)
  • Nirbheetha punchi sannaliya (නිර්භීත පුංචි සන්නාලිය/ The gallant little dressmaker)

Translations

  • Throejapura Sangramaya (ත්‍රෝජපුර සංග්‍රාමය) - translation of Iliad and Odyssey
  • Wana Sangramaya (වන සංග්‍රාමය) - translation of Ivanhoe

References

  1. ↑ Senevirathna, Chandrasiri (August 12, 2023). "මායාරංජන් නමැති රසවාදියා (Maya-Ranjan, the Enthralled)". සිළුමිණ, ප්‍රථම සතිඅන්ත සිංහල අන්තර්ජාල පුවත්පත by Lake House.
  2. ↑ Indeewara Thilakarathne. "Pioneer writers in Sinhala literature". Sunday Observer. Retrieved 18 March 2012.
  3. ↑ Thilak Senasinghe. "නෙල්ලිකැලේ බුරියාද මායා රංජන් ද". www.lankanewspage.com. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
  4. ↑ Maya-Ranjan. "ත්‍රෝජපුර සංග්‍රාමය". www.booksbay.lk. Retrieved 17 August 2023.
  5. ↑ Maya-Ranjan. "වන සංග්‍රාමය". www.booksbay.lk. Retrieved 17 August 2023.
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