Artistic Name:
D.M.S. Ariyarathne
Name:
Sunil Danapala
E-mail:
girandurukotte (at) gmail.com
Country:
Sri Lanka
Phone number:
Celular:
Sri Lanka country code (0754498087)
Address:
Kindelpitiya, Welmilla, Sri Lanka
Nacionality:
Sri Lankan
City:
Colombo
Performances:

The Bremen town musicians (Brothers Grimm)

The Rainbow Flower (Valentin Katayev)

Go I know not where, fetch I know not what (A Russian fairy tale)

Emperor's new clothes (Hans Christian Andersem)

How Andare ate king's sugar (Sri Lankan court jester Andare's stories)

I can also do "Origami" creations and singing nursery rhymes in several languages (Sinhala, Tamil, English, Italian). 

Audience:
All
 
C.V. / Resume:

I'm a translator from English to Sinhala. I have translated several books and also published my own anthology of poems. 

I was awarded as the best translator in 2006 at the State Literary Festival for my translation of Chinese authoress Jung Chang's "Wild Swans - Three Daughters of China".

Then I translated Italian author Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose".

Then Japanese author Yukio Mishima's "The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea" etc.

Member of International Storytelling Network.
International Storytelling Network
International Storytelling Network
Author of:

"Yal Sendewak - An evening of harvest season" original Sinhala anthology of poems. - 2002

Several translated books from English to Sinhala, the main language in Sri Lanka.

  • 1. Hemingway's Life story - Christoper Cook Gilmore - 2000
  • 2. Robinson Cruso - An abridged Sinhala translation for children - 2000
  • 3. Wild Swans - Three Daughters of China - Jung Chang 2005 (Won the best Sinhala translator award in that year)
  • 4. The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea - Yukio Mishima - 2007
  • 5. The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco - 2008
  • 6. Mary - Vladimir Nabokove - 2009
  • 7. The Empire of the sun - J. G. Ballard - 2012

 

Languages:
Sinhala, Tamil, English
Web:
Blog:
Youtube Codes:

 

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