Samara Wijesinghe

Samara Wijesinghe (21 August 1943 – 4 September 2015) was a Sri Lanka engineer, author, poet and blogger.[1]

Samara Wijesinghe
Samara Wijesinghe
Occupation(s)Mechanical engineer, writer,poet, blogger.

Biography

Wijesinghelage Samarasena Wijesinghe was born in Kegalle, Sri Lanka. He completed his education at Government Science College, Matale and embarked on his first job as a mechanical engineer at the National Steel Corporation. He later moved to Lanka Walltiles PLC before embarking on his own plywood production house.

Publications

Samara was a prolific poet in Sinhalese with many publications in both print and electronic media to his name. A short summary includes the following:

  • චූල ගායිකාව (short stories) 2003[2]
  • ගෝත්‍රිකාව (short stories) 2004
  • නොසිදුවීම් කීපයක් (short stories) 2005
  • එක කවිය සිය වරක් (poetry) 2009
  • සේදී ගිය පාට (short stories)2009
  • සද්ධර්ම කතා- සද්ධර්මරත්නාවලියේ එන කෙටිකතා කීපයක් (short stories - Retold stories from Saddharma Rathanawaliya) 2010 [3]

Presence in Electronic Media

Wijesinghe maintained a blog titled 'නොසිදුවීම් කීපයක්' (Non-Events). The collected short stories from this were subsequently published as a book by the same name.[4] He was a vocal presence in the Sinhalese blog-sphere, encouraging other bloggers to write and publish their work. As the first collection of online writings he led the popular Sinhalese website Boondi.lk to publish Boondi Akshara Senaga (බූන්දි අක්ෂර සෙනග).[5]

References
  1. "[Boondi.lk] කවි බූන්දි| කාලයේ කෙළවර| සමර විජේසිංහ".
  2. "[BOONDI.LK] වෙසෙස් බූන්දි| විද්‍යාවෙ තර්කය සහ අවිද්‍යාවෙ විතර්කය අතර මංමුලාවක සාහිත්‍යය අතගෑම\r\n| ඩෝසන් ප්‍රීති ඊ.ඒ."
  3. "වචන ටැක්සි: "ශ්‍රී සමෘද්ධිමත් ලෙස බත් කෑමක්" -සමර විජේසිංහගේ සද්ධර්ම කතා ගැන". 21 November 2010.
  4. "නොසිදුවීම් කීපයක්".
  5. "බූන්දි අක්ෂර සෙනග- සිරස ආර්ට් එක".


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