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About Piyadasa Sirisena
- Piyadasa Sirisena was a Ceylonese pioneer novelist, patriot, journalist, temperance worker and independence activist.
- He was the author of some of the bestselling Sinhalese novels in early 20th century.
- A follower of Anagarika Dharmapala, Siresena was the most popular novelist of the era and most of his novels were on nationalistic and patriotic themes.
- Piyadasa Sirisena used the novel as a medium through which to reform society and became one of the leaders in mass communication in the early part of the 20th century.
- Piyadasa Sirisena is widely considered as the father of Sinhalese novel.
- Some of his novel were reprinted even in the 21st century.
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