එම් කුඩලිගම), popularly known as H. M. Kudaligama was a prominent Sri Lankan poet, journalist and a writer.
[4] His eldest son Geethanath Kudaligama is a media consultant, lyric writer and an explorative author.
[4] When he was ill at the Colombo General Hospital, he slept on a bench and on the floor in the ward corridor.
At the age of sixteen, Kudaligama began composing poems for various newspapers and magazines.
On October 15, 1954, he released the anthology of poems titled 'Kunatuwa' published the Maliyadeva Press, Kurunegala.
[2] The two founders of modern Sinhala dialogue poetry are P. B. Alwis Perera and Kudaligama.
[4][9] In the Sinhala "Balaya" newspaper edited by Hemapala Munidasa, the popular dialogue poem Yuddhayata Giya Ayyagen Nangita was written by Alwis Perera where Kudaligama contributed under the name 'Nalani'.