Liyanage Amarakeerthi is a fiction writer, a translator, a poet, a critic, and a professor of
Sinhala at University of Peradeniya. A Fulbright scholar, he has published six novels, nine
collections of stories, three collections of poems and numerous scholarly books. Professor
Amarakeerthi has won the national literary award for his novels, short stories, translations and
scholarly work. He also won the Swarna Pusthaka Award (Golden Book Award 2013 and 2016).