Wimal dissanayake biography of mahatma

Sri Lankan writer, academic, university professor and film critic

For the Sri Lankan politician, see Wimalaweera Dissanayake.

Wimal Dissanayake (born 1939) is a Sri Lankan writer, lecturer, and scholar of Asian cinema and Asian communication theory.^[1]

Biography

Dissanayake is from Nikaveva, a village about 35 kilometers away from Kurunegala town.

Both his parents were school teachers.

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He attended high school at Trinity College, Kandy.^[2] He studied under dramatist Ediriweera Sarachchandra.^[2]

Career

Dissanayake graduated from the University of Peradeniya with a Bachelor of Arts degree upon graduating from the university, which merged while he was there with the University of Ceylon.^[2] He then obtained an M.A.

from the University of Pennsylvania^[2] and a Ph.D from the University of Cambridge. He received Fulbright and Rockefeller Fellowships. He then became Wei Lun Distinguished Professor at the Chin Wimal Dissanayake - Wikiwand TEL