Piyaseeli Wijegunasinghe
Piyaseeli Wijegunasingha (February 20, 1943 – September 2, 2010) was a Trotskyist, a Marxist scholar and a member of Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka) from 1968.[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)
Film Reviews
- Fire: A film which bears witness to Deepa Mehta's courage as an artist, the review of Deepa Mehta's 1996 film Fire was originally published in Sinhalese in Kamkaru Mawatha, the newspaper of the Socialist Equality Party in Sri Lanka, on May 29 and June 12, 1998.
- Life is not the problem, but the conditions under which it is offered, Pavuru Valalu (Walls Within), directed by Prasanna Vithanage, screenplay by Tony Ranasingha.
- How war has shattered the life of a Sri Lankan village, Pura Handa Kaluwara (Death on a Full Moon Day), written and directed by Prasanna Vithanage.
- In the classical realist tradition, Sisila Gini Gani (Ice on Fire), directed by Prasanna Vithanage, script Sanath Gunathilaka and music by Premasiri Khemadasa.
- The impact of war on daily life in Sri Lanka, Ira Mediyama (August Sun), written and directed by Prasanna Vithanage.
Other reviews
- A serious attempt to encourage Sri Lankan opera, Sonduru Varnadasi (The Alluring Courtesan), directed by Premasiri Khemadasa, libretto by Lucien Bulathsinghala.
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.
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