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Kala Keerthi

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The Kala Keerthi is a Sri Lankan national honour awarded "for extraordinary achievements and contributions in arts, culture and drama". It is the highest national honour for arts, culture and drama in Sri Lanka. It is conventionally used as a title or prefix to the awardee's name. Kala Keerthi ranks lower than Vidya Jyothi.

Awardees

Awardees include:

1998
  • Premasiri Kemadasa
  • Irangani Serasinghe
  • Regi Siriwardena
  • Dharmasiri Jayakody
  • Nalini Jayasuriya
    • 2005
  • A. J. Canagarathnam
  • A. Jesurasa
  • A. Sivananthan
  • Asoka Handagama
  • Bharahmasri Sarveswara Sarma
  • Carl Muller
  • Dharmasena Pathiraja
  • Dharmasiri Bandaranayake
  • Enid Anula Aluvihare De Silva
  • Gamini Kalyanadarsha Haththotuwegama
  • Geetha Kumarasinghe
  • Gnarathan
  • Henry Jayasena
  • Jackson Anthony
  • Jayalath Manoratne
  • Karthigesu Sivathamby
  • Kulanthai M. shunmugalingam
  • Latha Walpola
  • M. Kanakasabai
  • Malini Fonseka
  • Monica Ruwanpathirana (Posthumous)
  • Olga De Livera
  • T. B. Richard M. Don Gabriel
  • Pandithar Sachchithanantham
  • Prasanna Vithanage
  • Roahana Weerasinghe
  • S. Maunaguru
  • S. Pani Bharatha (Posthumous)
  • Sanath Gunathilake
  • Sanath Nandasiri
  • Santhini Sevanesan
  • Shyam Selvadurai
  • Sybil Wettasinghe
  • Simon Nawagaththegama (Posthumous)
  • Somalatha Subasinghe
  • Sri Jayana Rajapakse
  • Sumithra Peiris
  • Swarna Mallawarachchi
  • Tilak Abeysinghe
  • Tissa Ranasinghe
  • Vimukthi Jayasundara
  • Wasantha Obeysekera

    • References

    Kala Keerthi Wikipedia
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