Piyaseeli Wijegunasinghe
| Piyaseeli Wijegunasingha | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 22, 1943 |
| Died | September 2, 2010 (aged 67) |
| Nationality | Sri Lankan |
Piyaseeli Wijegunasingha (February 20, 1943 – September 2, 2010) was a Sri Lankan Trotskyist, a Marxist scholar, and a member of Sri Lanka's Socialist Equality Party from 1968 until her death.[1] She worked as a lecturer for 44 years[2] at University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Books
Following were written in Sinhala and no English translation is available as of now.
- A Materialist Study of Literature (1982)
- A Marxist Study of Modern Sinhala Literary Criticism (1987)
- A Reply to Sucharitha Gamlath: Marxist Principles on Criticism of the Arts (1995)
- The god of small things: A review and a reply (2004)
Translations
The year of the publication of Sinhala translation is shown with titles.
- The Heritage We Defend by David North (1990)
- Gerry Healy and His Place in the History of the Fourth International by David North, Part 1 (1991) and Part 2 (1993)
- Bolshevism and the Avant-Garde Artists by David Walsh (1993)
- The Aesthetic Component of Socialism by David Walsh (1998)
- In Defence of Marxism by Leon Trotsky (2002)
References
- ↑ WSWS Piyaseeli Wijegunasingha, a Sri Lankan Trotskyist, dies at 67
- ↑ Fernando, Mano. Piyaseeli Wijegunasingha Samachara (no English translation available). Wijesuriya Grantha Kendraya, 2011, p. ix.
External links
- Fire: A film which bears witness to Deepa Mehta's courage as an artist
- Life is not the problem, but the conditions under which it is offered
- How war has shattered the life of a Sri Lankan village
- In the classical realist tradition
- The impact of war on daily life in Sri Lanka
- A serious attempt to encourage Sri Lankan opera
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