Poets, Novelists & Academic Writers
- Dr Gunadasa Amarasekara – Dental Surgeon, Writer, Poet
- Asoka Weerasinghe - award-winning poet, Co-founder of the Gloucester Spoken Art Series in Ottawa Canada (note: - also listed in Ambassadors and High Commissioners)
- Siri Perera, QC (also known as U.A.S. Perera) - famous "Siri Aiya" of Radio Ceylon (note: also listed in Lawyers & Judges)
- Ajith Galappaththy - well known film critic
- Dr Jagath Asoka Panangadan - famous medical writer New Jersey, former assistant Professor Department of Chemistry, Monmouth University, New Jersey USA
- Professor Suwanda H J Sugunasiri - author of three collections of poetry in English (Faces of Galle Face Green, Celestial Conversations, Obama-Ji); Novel, Untouchable Woman's Odyssey; short fiction in Sinhala: yama yudde, meeharak. (note:- also listed in Academics)
- Kivipathi Sugathamuni Gnanasiri - a famous poet, veteran educationist, psychologist
- Anura C. Perera - well-known science writer and author
- Sunanda Karunaratne - poet, author
- Miniwan P. Thilakaratne - veteran novelist
- Oruwala Bandu - poet, author, Russian Language specialist
Read more about this topic: List Of Nalanda College Colombo Alumni
Famous quotes containing the words novelists, academic and/or writers:
“There are acacias, a graceful species amusingly devitalized by sentimentality, this kind drooping its leaves with the grace of a young widow bowed in controllable grief, this one obscuring them with a smooth silver as of placid tears. They please, like the minor French novelists of the eighteenth century, by suggesting a universe in which nothing cuts deep.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)
“I was so grateful to be independent of the academic establishment. I thought, how awful it would be to have my future hinge on such people and such decisions.”
—Jane Jacobs (b. 1916)
“Great writers are the saints for the godless.”
—Anita Brookner (b. 1938)