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Eric Illayapparachchi (born 16 December 1954) is a
"The dark face of the new left"
''Sunday Observer'' (Sri Lanka), 23 January 2005. * Aravinda
''Daily News'' (Sri Lanka), 3 October 2001. *Chamikara Weerasinghe
"Fire on stage in opera"
''The Daily News'' (Sri Lanka), 25 May 2007. *Susitha R. Fernando
''The Sunday Times'' (Sri Lanka), 18 February 2007. *K. S. Sivakumaran
''The Daily News'' (Sri Lanka), 31 December 2003. *Malini Govinnage
(review of ''Sahitha Samaja Prathiroopa'' by Sashi Prabhath Ranasinghe, profiles of 20 prominent literary figures in Sri Lanka, including Eric Illayapparachchi), ''The Daily News'' (Sri Lanka), 30 June 2004.
"Sonic canvas of Premasiri Khemadasa"
by Eric
Agni Opera
- official web site 1954 births Living people Sinhalese poets Sinhalese writers Sri Lankan novelists {{SriLanka-writer-stub
Eric Illayapparachchi (born 16 December 1954) is a Sinhalese
Sinhala may refer to:
* Something of or related to the Sinhalese people of Sri Lanka
* Sinhalese people
* Sinhala language, one of the three official languages used in Sri Lanka
* Sinhala script, a writing system for the Sinhala language
** Sinha ...
writer and poet. He wrote the libretto
A libretto (Italian for "booklet") is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or Musical theatre, musical. The term ''libretto'' is also sometimes used to refer to the t ...
for '' Agni'', an opera composed by Premasiri Khemadasa which had its premiere on 26 May 2007 in Colombo. One of his short stories was made into a television drama for the series ''Vinividimi Adura'' (Through the Darkness) on Sri Lanka's ITN
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network. Another of his short stories appears in an anthology of Sri Lankan stories in English translation (Ashley Helpe (ed.), ''A Lankan Mosaic'', Three Wheeler Press).
Books
See also
*Sri Lankan literature
Sri Lankan literature is the literary tradition of Sri Lanka. The largest part of Sri Lankan literature was written in the Sinhala language, but there is a considerable number of works in other languages used in Sri Lanka over the millennia (inc ...
Sources
*Ajith Samaranayake"The dark face of the new left"
''Sunday Observer'' (Sri Lanka), 23 January 2005. * Aravinda
''Daily News'' (Sri Lanka), 3 October 2001. *Chamikara Weerasinghe
"Fire on stage in opera"
''The Daily News'' (Sri Lanka), 25 May 2007. *Susitha R. Fernando
''The Sunday Times'' (Sri Lanka), 18 February 2007. *K. S. Sivakumaran
''The Daily News'' (Sri Lanka), 31 December 2003. *Malini Govinnage
(review of ''Sahitha Samaja Prathiroopa'' by Sashi Prabhath Ranasinghe, profiles of 20 prominent literary figures in Sri Lanka, including Eric Illayapparachchi), ''The Daily News'' (Sri Lanka), 30 June 2004.
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"Sonic canvas of Premasiri Khemadasa"
by Eric
Agni Opera
- official web site 1954 births Living people Sinhalese poets Sinhalese writers Sri Lankan novelists {{SriLanka-writer-stub