ලියනගේ අමරකීර්ති (Liyanage Amarakeerthi): February 2023

Saturday, February 25, 2023

: Liyanage Amarakeerthi (W. A. Liyanage) received his primary and secondary education at rural schools in Kurunegala district entering the university of Colombo in 1990 where he received a BA. In 1998, Amarakeerthi went to the university of Wisconsin on a Fulbright Scholarship for his postgraduate studies. On completing an MA in Literature in 2000, he was funded by the university of Wisconsin for his doctoral work under Prof .Charles Hallisey. After obtaining his PhD in 2004 he moved to Cornell University on a teaching appointment where he also attended the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University. He joined university of Peradeniya in 2008. During his postgraduate studies he was able to take a host courses in literature, literary theory, theories of drama, translation theory, theories of aesthetics, film Studies and so on. He has published more than 15 books of fiction, poetry and literary theory. He won national literary award for the ‘best' collection of short stories in 2000 and for the ‘best' novel in 2008. At Peradeniya he teaches courses in literary theory, translation Studies, postcolonial theory, theories of drama, and Aesthetics.

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