Wimal dissanayake biography
Professor Wimal Dissanayake is....
Wimal Dissanayake
Sri Lankan writer, academic, university professor and film critic
For the Sri Lankan politician, see Wimalaweera Dissanayake.
Wimal Dissanayake (born 1939) is a Sri Lankan writer, lecturer, and scholar of Asian cinema and Asian communication theory.[1]
Biography
Dissanayake is from Nikaveva, a village about 35 kilometers away from Kurunegala town.
Wimal Dissanayake (born ) is a Sri Lankan writer, lecturer, and scholar of Asian cinema and Asian communication theory.
Both his parents were school teachers. He attended high school at Trinity College, Kandy.[2] He studied under dramatist Ediriweera Sarachchandra.[2]
Career
Dissanayake graduated from the University of Peradeniya with a Bachelor of Arts degree upon graduating from the university, which merged while he was there with the University of Ceylon.[2] He then obtained an M.A.
from the University of Pennsylvania[2] and a Ph.D from the University of Cambridge. He received Fulbright and Rockefeller Fellowships. He then became Wei Lun Distinguished Professor at the Chin