Maya Ranjan
Mahanama Rajapaksha, who wrote under the pseudonym Maya Ranjan, was a prominent Sinhala writer and schoolteacher from Sri Lanka.
His magnum opus Digaamadulle Aashcharyaya, published in 1957, was important to Sri Lankan literature and established him the country's pioneering wildlife non-fiction writer.
He also translated Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe into Sinhala.
Publications
Own work
Digaamadulle Aashcharyaya Pitisara Minissu Mage Raajyaya Ape Raajyaya Kalisama saha Sukumari Weediya Bandara Neela Kumaraya saha Ran Menika Heenen gae suwandha Sahodarayo denna Pandukhabaya Prema Poojawa Atalle upan Kumariya- ''Nirbheetha punchi sannaliya''