Gunadasa Amarasekara

Biography:

Gunadasa Amarasekera is a prominent Sinhala writer poet and essayist from Sri Lanka. Gunadasa Amarasekera was born in Yattalamatta in Galle District. He was educated at Mahinda College Galle and Nalanda College Colombo. He is a graduate of University of Ceylon and a Dental Surgeon by profession. He is one of the founding fathers of the Peradeniya school of literary tradition of modern Sri Lankan literature.