Daya Dissanayake is an award winning bi-lingual Sri Lankan author, who won the SAARC Literary Award 2013. He is the first author to have won State Literary Award for English Novel twice. He won it for the first time for Kat Bitha which was his first novel. His second book The Saadhu Testament is the first electronic novel by an Asian Author. He followed it up by releasing Wessan Novu Wedun also as an e-novel thus becoming the first to publish a Sinhala Electronic Novel. Both books are available for free online reading at this website.
Daya’s Chandraratnage Bawantara Charikawa was one of the joint winners of the first ever ‘Swarna Pusthaka’ award for the best Sinhala novel. The same year Evesdropper was received the literary award for the best English novel.
To date, Daya has published eight novels and a collection of poems. He also contributes regularly to newspapers.
