Eric Illayapparachchi

Eric Illayapparachchi (born 16 December 1954) is a Sinhalese writer and poet. He wrote the libretto for Agni, an opera composed by Premasiri Khemadasa which had its premiere on 26 May 2007 in Colombo. One of his short stories was made into a television drama for the series Vinividimi Adura (Through the Darkness) on Sri Lanka's ITN network. Another of his short stories appears in an anthology of Sri Lankan stories in English translation (Ashley Helpe (ed.), A Lankan Mosaic, Three Wheeler Press).

Books

Novels Bagandara Vithanda Samaya Adaraye Simenthi Lalitha Samaya Paada Yaathraa Paradesi Rathu Palasa Petha

Short Stories Wadadiya Mal nathi uyana Lanka Gamana Awanaduwaka Satahan Kylasha Kutaya Minis Wataya China Towma

Biographies Premasiri Khemadasa, Critical Biography

Anthology of Poems Madiyama Geethaya Alindaya Siduhathga Agamahasiya Wesathur Sirithak Mage Kolabata HadaPayai Kisiwek Kaviyan Nomarathi Piththala Handiya Sucharitha Siritha

Books on Aesthetics Chithra Kalawa ha Vicharaya(Painting and Criticism) Chithra Kala Siyapatha(on Renaissance Art) Chithra Kalawa Sawwandiya(On Modernism) Kalathmaka Chanaya Saba Lokaya(On Critical Theory and Narratology) Vichara Pathrika(On Critical Theory, Semiology and Narratology) Khemadasa Lankaya Samajaya, Khemadasa Sangeethaya, Agni Operawa (with Rohan Perera)(Deleuzean Analysis on the musicology of Khemadasa) Opera Vinisa

Other Mee Pani saha Alu(Honey and Ashes)on theories of Roland Barthes Miss Lanka (Stage Drama Script) Agni (Libretto)