Name Punyakante Wijenaike | ||
Walipilla with punyakante wijenaike 06th december 2014
Punyakante Wijenaike (born Colombo, 1933) is a Sri Lankan writer. She spent most of her life in Colombo, where she has published all of her works.
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- Walipilla with punyakante wijenaike 06th december 2014
- Monkeys by Punyakante Wijenaike
- Work
- Awards and recognition
- Novels
- Short stories
- References
Monkeys by Punyakante Wijenaike
Work
Wijenaike writes primarily in English, including fiction, short stories and anthologies. Her first collection of short stories, The Third Woman, was published in 1963. Since then she has published four collections of short stories and six novels, with more than 100 stories published in newspapers, journals and anthologies in Sri Lanka and abroad, and has had her works broadcast in Sri Lanka and on the BBC.
Her novel Giraya was adapted into a teledrama by Independent Television Network of Sri Lanka.
Awards and recognition
Ten of her works are held by the U.S. Library of Congress.
Novels
Short stories
References
Punyakante Wijenaike Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA