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The following is a list of
Sri Lankan
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Poets
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Poets
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List of Sri Lankan poets
Novelists
Tissa Abeysekera
Nihal De Silva
Chitra Fernando
Vijita Fernando
Romesh Gunesekera
Indrani Karunarathne
Shehan Karunatilaka
Carl Muller
Michael Ondaatje
Denagama Siriwardena
W. A. Silva
Vivimarie Vanderpoorten
Sybil Wettasinghe
Martin Wickramasinghe
Punyakante Wijenaike
Rajiva Wijesinha
Thilak Senasinghe
G. B. Senanayake
Sugathapala De Silva
Mahagama Sekara
Simon Navagattegama
Dominic Jeeva
Ediriweera Sarachchandra
K. Jayatillake
Non-fiction
S. H. M. Jameel
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