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Sunday, November 12, 2017

k k saman kumara: A controversial writer in modern Sri Lankan literature. He writes short stories, novels, poems and he is an art critic. Saman has published two novels, three compilations of short stories a collection of poems. One of his youth novels comprise three novellas into a trilogy. He has published another two teen stories and few other children stories as well. Saman co-translated Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita into Sinhala. An Encyclopedia on modern literature and a critical work about all the novels of Sri Lankan literary genius Simon Nawagaththegama are landmarks in Saman’s literary journey. His writings are placed among magical realist, post modernist genre of contemporary Sri Lankan literature. He combined vivid aspects of psychoanalysis, post colonialism, feminism - post feminism, anthropology, Buddhist literature, folktales and fairytales, which interlaced a unique form and style into Sinhala narrative across three decades since 1980's.

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