Poets and Writers
- James De Alwis - Ninetheenth century Sinhala poet and writer (note: - Also listed in Legislators)
- R. L. Spittle, CMG, CBE, FRCS - author
- Phiroz Mehta - writer and lecturer on religious topics
- Carl Muller- author and Journalist
- Brendon Gooneratne - author (note: - Also listed in Academics)
- Shyam Selvadurai- author
- Lucky de Chickera - author (note: - Also listed in Industrialists and corporate executives)
- Susantha Goonatilake - author and President of the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka
- Gamini Salgado - author on Elizabethan and Jacobean literature and appointed Chair of English at University of Exeter
- Seneka Abeyratne - play writer
- Harold Peiris - translator of Sinhalese literature & patron of the arts
- L.C. van Geyzel - translator of Sinhalese literature
Read more about this topic: List Of Royal College Colombo Alumni
Famous quotes containing the words poets and, poets and/or writers:
“Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time,
Tiering the same dull webs of discontent,
Clipping the same sad alnage of the years.”
—Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)
“For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“That’s one thing I like about Hollywood. The writer is there revealed in his ultimate corruption. He asks no praise, because his praise comes to him in the form of a salary check. In Hollywood the average writer is not young, not honest, not brave, and a bit overdressed. But he is darn good company, which book writers as a rule are not. He is better than what he writes. Most book writers are not as good.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)