Somaweera Senanayake was a Sri Lankan award-winning teledrama and script writer who worked as a journalist, short story writer and as a novelist in his career.
12 Facts About Somaweera Senanayake
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Somaweera Senanayake died on 9 June 2018 at a private hospital in Colombo at the age of 73.
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Somaweera Senanayake was born in 1944 in a village near Avissawella area.
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Somaweera Senanayake attended a village mixed school in Kudagama for his primary education and finished his secondary education at the Seethawaka Central College and at the Rajasinghe Central College before obtaining an Arts Degree from Vidyodaya University.
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Somaweera Senanayake began his career as a journalist at the Lake House and became a chief editor.
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Somaweera Senanayake pursued his writing skills from being a journalist to a novelist and had published several well known novels in Sri Lankan literature such as Yashoravaya, Mawakage Geethaya, Baladevage Lokaya, Irahanda Payana Loke and Ambu Samiyo.
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Somaweera Senanayake had published about 17 novels and written 10 children's short stories during his lifetime.
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Somaweera Senanayake had written cartoon stories to the Sri Lanka's first ever cartoon paper, Sathuta.
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Somaweera Senanayake stepped into the small screen industry as well as in the Sinhala film industry as a script writer.
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Somaweera Senanayake had written scripts for over 30 teledramas including Doo Daruwo, Asal Vesiyo, Palingu Menike, Uthuru Kuru Satana, Sitha Niwana Katha and Charitha Thunak.
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Somaweera Senanayake wrote scripts to Ammawarune which was directed by late veteran film director Lester James Peiris and Mihidum Sihina.
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Somaweera Senanayake died on 9 June 2018 at 73 years old in a private hospital in Colombo of a heart attack while receiving treatment.