Fernando such as "Obage Thurulen Oba Dun Sihilen" and "Amathannata Heki Basak Soya".
[2] The program involved many foreign personalities such as Darwin, Socrates, Dickens, Plato, D H Lawrence, Beethoven, Checkov, Gallileo, Homer which were discussed under socio-political frame work.
[3] After his return from Poland to Sri Lanka, he published a book on Polish folk tales, Polantha Janakatha.
[3] His book Ogha Tharanaya (The Crossing of the Torrential Stream) won the State Literary Award for the best Sinhala poetry collection in 2006.
He has won the State Literary Award for the best original play script (1993), the best research work (2002) and twice for the best Sinhala novels in 1964 and 2002.
His outstanding contribution to his field of expertise, mass communication, earned him a UNESCO Copernicus award for Social Sciences in 1983.