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PROF.SUNANDA MAHENDRA

Sunanda Mahendra was formerly a professional broadcaster at home as well as the BBC’s World Service based in London, where he also read for his doctorate. He was a visiting fellow in Mass Communication attached to the Leicester University, UK, and presently holds the emeritus professorship at the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka.
The outstanding contribution to his expertise field of Mass Communication made him the recipient of the covetous UNESCO Copernicus award for Social Sciences in 1983.

He won the State Literary Award for the best Sinhala poetry collection, 2006. Many poems from the collection are now translated into English. He has won the State Literary Award for the best original play script (1993), the best research work (2002) and the best two Sinhala novels (1964 and 2002 respectively).

Sunanda Mahendra, at present, is a regular contributor to the Sinhala and English Press in Sri Lanka as well as the media consultant to LakHanda Radio & Independent Television Network (ITN). He is a visiting lecturer for Writer ship and Communication Department of Sri Jayawardanapura University, Sri Lanka.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
 

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