Gunadasa Amarasekera (born 1929) is a prominent Sinhala writer, poet, and essayist from Sri Lanka.
[1][2] Gunadasa Amarasekera was born in Yattalamatta in Galle District.
[3][4][5] In the early 1950s, his short story “Soma” was selected to represent Ceylon in a world short story competition organized by the New York Herald Tribune.
[7][8][9] Amarasekera is a graduate of University of Ceylon and is a Dental Surgeon by profession.
He is one of the founding fathers of the Peradeniya school of literary tradition of modern Sri Lankan literature.