Maya Ranjan

Mahanama Rajapaksha (1913 – 16 November 1968), who wrote under the pseudonym Maya Ranjan, was a prominent Sinhala writer and schoolteacher from Sri Lanka.

His magnum opus Digaamadulle Aashcharyaya (දිගාමඬුල්ලේ ආශ්චර්යය), 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.

Own work

 * Digaamadulle Aashcharyaya (දිගාමඬුල්ලේ ආශ්චර්යය/ The Enchantment of Digaamadulla)
 * Pitisara Minissu (පිටිසර මිනිස්සු/ Rural Folks)
 * Mage Raajyaya (මගේ රාජ්‍යය/ My Kingdom)
 * Ape Raajyaya (අපේ රාජ්‍යය/ Our Kingdom)
 * Kalisama saha Sukumari (කලිසම සහ සුකුමාරි/ Sukumari's Pants)
 * Weediya Bandara (වීදිය බණ්ඩාර)
 * Neela (නීලා)
 * Kumaraya saha Ran Menika (කුමාරයා සහ රං මැණිකා/ The Prince and Ran Menika)
 * Heenen gae suwandha (හීනෙන් ගෑ සුවඳ/ Dreamed Fragrance)
 * Sahodarayo denna (සහෝදරයෝ දෙන්නා/ Brothers)
 * Pandukhabaya (පණ්ඩුකාභය)
 * Prema Poojawa (ප්‍රේම පූජාව/ Romantic devotion)
 * Atalle upan Kumariya (අටල්ලේ උපන් කුමරිය/ The Princess who was born in Atalla)
 * Nirbheetha punchi sannaliya (නිර්භීත පුංචි සන්නාලිය/ The gallant little dressmaker)

Translations

 * Throejapura Sangramaya (ත්‍රෝජපුර සංග්‍රාමය) - translation of Iliad and Odyssey
 * Wana Sangramaya (වන සංග්‍රාමය) - translation of Ivanhoe