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Sri Lankan writer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mahanama Rajapaksha (1913 – 16 November 1968), who wrote under the pseudonym Maya Ranjan, was a prominent Sinhala writer and schoolteacher from Sri Lanka.[1][2]
His magnum opus Digaamadulle Aashcharyaya (Sinhala: දිගාමඬුල්ලේ ආශ්චර්යය, lit. 'The Enchantment of Digaamadulla'), published in 1957, was important to Sri Lankan literature and established him the country's pioneering wildlife non-fiction writer.[3]
He also translated Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe into Sinhala.[4][5]
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