156 pages
226 x 145mm
ISBN 10: 1 85856 396 8
ISBN 13: 978 1 85856 396 1
March 2005

Winner of 2006 National Literary Award of Sri Lanka for the best non-fiction book.
At a time when the world of Sinhala arts and letters is ignored or misrepresented in the West, it is fitting that Trentham has brought this insightful and scholarly book to their list.

Professor Wimal Dissanayake has selected four of the leading cultural intellectuals in the country: Munidasa Cumaratunga, Martin Wickramasinghe, Ederiweera Sarachchandra and Gunadasa Amarasekera, to examine critically. He explains their innovative work in terms of the interplay between tradition and modernity in light of contemporary thinking on culture, history, language and agency.