Maya Ranjan

Mahanama Rajapaksha (1913 – 16 November 1968), who wrote under the pseudonym Maya Ranjan, was a prominent Sinhala writer and schoolteacher from Sri Lanka.

His magnum opus Digaamadulle Aashcharyaya , published in 1957, was important to Sri Lankan literature and established him the country's pioneering wildlife non-fiction writer.

He also translated Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe into Sinhala.

Publications Own work Digaamadulle Aashcharyaya (දිගාමඬුල්ලේ ආශ්චර්යය/The Enchantment of Digaamadulla) Pitisara Minissu (පිටිසර මිනිස්සු/Rural Folks) Mage Raajyaya (මගේ රාජ්‍යය/My Kingdom) Ape Raajyaya (අපේ රාජ්‍යය/Our Kingdom) Kalisama saha Sukumari (කලිසම සහ සුකුමාරි/ Sukumari's Pants) Weediya Bandara (වීදිය බණ්ඩාර) Neela (නීලා) Kumaraya saha Ran Menika (කුමාරයා සහ රං මැණිකා/The Prince and Ran Menika) Heenen gae suwandha (හීනෙන් ගෑ සුවඳ/Dreamed Fragrance) Sahodarayo denna (සහෝදරයෝ දෙන්නා/Brothers) Pandukhabaya (පණ්ඩුකාභය) Prema Poojawa (ප්‍රේම පූජාව/Romantic devotion) Atalle upan Kumariya (අටල්ලේ උපන් කුමරිය/The Princess who was born in Atalla) Nirbheetha punchi sannaliya (නිර්භීත පුංචි සන්නාලිය/The gallant little dressmaker)

Translations Throejapura Sangramaya (ත්‍රෝජපුර සංග්‍රාමය) - translation of Iliad and Odyssey Wana Sangramaya (වන සංග්‍රාමය) - translation of Ivanhoe