Hi, I am
Lal Medawattegedara
a Sri Lankan Writer
Lal Medawattegedara is a Sri Lankan author writing in English. He has written two novels and two short story collections. His fiction has won Sri Lanka’s foremost award for creative writing, the Gratiaen Prize once and has been short-listed for the same award twice. He is an academic with the Language Studies Department of The Open University of Sri Lanka.
A text is a world of its own. It exists and does not exist at the same time. When writing happens, the text and the world become one. Everything disappears…like the floating dust after a short spell of rain.
– Lal M
When Ghosts Die Preamble
Playing Pillow Politics at MGK
Winner Gratiaen Prize 2012
The Trouble with Old People
The Godage Manuscript Competition Winners Short Story 2024
When Ghosts Die…
Shortlisted for Gratian Prize 2023
The Window Cleaner’s Soul
Short-listed Gratiaen Prize 2002
Restless Rust
(A Novel)
To be released shortly
Short-listed Gratiaen Prize 2020
Can You Hear me Running
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