Mr. Nimal Wijesiri is a Senior Lecturer attached to The Department of Sinhala, Faculty of Arts, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. He earned his BA (Hons.) in Sinhala from The University of Peradeniya and MA in Comparative Literature from Delhi University, India. He is a doctoral candidate in the Queensland University of Technology, Australia.
QUT- Australia
Delhi University
University of Peradeniya
Senior Lecturer - Department of Sinhala, University of Peradeniya
Senior Treasurer - Sinhala Society, Department of Sinhala , UOP
2017-2018
Chief Editor of Sarathi magazine - Central Provincial Council
2017-2018
Core-editor of Dalada Waruna magazine - Central Provincial Council
2016-2017
Panel member of the leadership training program - of Sri Lanka Military Academy (SLMA) Diyatalawa
2016
Resource person of Leadership and Career Development course in Ampara - Military Combat Training School, Sri Lanka-Military
2015
Chief examiner (panel) in G.C.E. A/L Examination - Department of Examinations
2013-2014
Warden of Arunachalam hall - University of Peradeniya
2017-2018
Senior Student Counselor - faculty of Arts, University of Peradeniya
2014
\Academic sub-warden of Arunachalam Hall - University of Peradeniya
2014
Senior Academic sub warden of Akbar Nell hall - University of Peradeniya
2013
Academic sub-warden of Marcus Fernando hall - University of Peradeniya
2007-2008
Member of Delhi Comparatists - 2011
NCAS-QUT Scholarship for Ph.D - QUT- Australia
2018
Commonwealth Indian Scholarship - ICCR (India)
2009
D.R. Wijewardene Award (the best Sinhalese novel) - 2006
Academic Excellence price for greatest competence in Sinhalese - University of Peradeniya
2005
Jayantha Weerasekara price for greatest competence in Sinhalese - University of Peradeniya
2005
C.E.Jayanayaka price for greatest competence in Sinhalese - University of Peradeniya
2005
National Award, Speech competition in Sinhalese language & literature - 1992
National Award, All Island speech competition - 1993
Pembara Buthaya (stage play), 2016
Sasara Suwa Soya (poem), 2007
Sulan Sandesa (poem), 2007
Parivarthana Navakathawa ha Lanka Samajaya (literary critic), 2007
Kaala Bheda (stage play), 2007
Jaala (novel), 2006
Agni Sanharaya (short stories), 2004
Nirasha (novel), 2003
Porakaya (stage play), 1999
Sinhala Language and Literature
Theatre studies, Comparative literature, Cultural studies
Sacred geography of the Fah-Hian report, National Seminar, Department of MILLS, University of Delhi, India, 2011
Inter-Art Study of Vessantara Jathaka, National seminar, Department of MILLS, University of Delhi, India, 2010
