• Sri Lankan writers by century (4 C)

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• Writers from Colombo (10 P)

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• Burgher writers (1 C, 13 P)
• Sri Lankan Chetty writers (1 P)
• Sri Lankan Moor writers (1 C, 1 P)
• Sinhalese writers (2 C, 119 P)
• Indian Tamil writers of Sri Lanka (2 P)
• Sri Lankan Tamil writers (1 C, 62 P)

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• English-language writers from Sri Lanka (22 P)

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• Writers from British Ceylon (2 C, 3 P)

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• Sri Lankan LGBTQ writers (1 C, 1 P)
• Sri Lankan male writers (3 C, 11 P)
• Sri Lankan women writers (8 C, 16 P)

C

• Sri Lankan children's writers (1 C, 6 P)

D

• Sri Lankan dramatists and playwrights (28 P)

F

• Sri Lankan feminist writers (5 P)

N

• Sri Lankan non-fiction writers (4 C, 12 P)
• Sri Lankan novelists (2 C, 58 P)

P

• Sri Lankan poets (6 C, 41 P)

R

• Sri Lankan radio writers (10 P)

S

• Sri Lankan screenwriters (1 C, 26 P)
• Sri Lankan short story writers (5 P)
• Sri Lankan songwriters (3 C, 10 P)

• List of Sri Lankan writers

A

• Gamini Akmeemana
• Ashok Ferrey

C

• Henry William Cave
• Visakesa Chandrasekaram
• Vajra Chandrasekera

D

• Valentine Daniel
• Wimal Dissanayake

G

• Se. Ganesalingan

H

• S. H. Hasbullah

K

• H. M. Kudaligama

R

• Maya Ranjan

S

• Ran Banda Seneviratne
• Sharmila Seyyid
• Sri Lankan literature

T

• Raipiyel Tennakoon
• Nyanaponika Thera

V

• Tarzie Vittachi

W

• Gamini Weerakoon
• Louis Corneille Wijesinghe
• Sunil Wijesiriwardena