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Wijayarathne Athapattu Mudiyanselage Anula Wijayarathne Menike commonly Anula Wijayarathne Menike(Sinhala: අනුලා විජයරත්න මැණිකේ, Tamil: அனுலா விஜேரத்ன மேனிகேயின், Japanese: アヌラー・W・マニケー)(born 15 January 1949) is and Sri Lankan award winiing author.

Anula Wijayarathne Menike was born in Embalawa (Sinhala: ඇඹලව), Kurunegala Sri Lanka to Rathnapala Menike a house wife and Wijayarathne Embalawa a civil servant. She attended local school in Embalawa for her primay education and later to Maliyadeva Girls School.

Personal life
Wijayarathne Menike got her Bachelor of Education from University of Sri Jayewardenepura where she met fellow schollar Prof. Roland Abeypala and later got married. She has worked as a Sinhalese teacher in various schools.

Awards and honours
In 1987 she won state literace award for her first novel Sujatha Puthrayange Wasthuwa(Sinhala: සුජාත පුත්‍රයින්ගේ වස්තුව) later marked as recomended reading for various government exams. Later filmed into a Teledrama with name "Sujatha Puthra". Her most prominent work, arguably, Wadabaginna (Sinhala: වඩබාගින්න ) wasn't substantially recognised at state level, most probably due to her political allignment at the time. However for the first time in Sri Lankna angered people(JVP led?) held a alternate literacy award at Viharamahadevi Park and awarded a litercay award for Wadabaginna as the best novel. At Later statge Japan identified Wadabaginna as one of the best literacy works in asia and translated to Japanese, Atsui Kocha(Japanese: 熱い紅茶) To date only Sinhalalese Novel translated to Japanese. Also Canadian Embassy in Sri Lanka recognised Wadabaginna and funded to translated to Tamil as Wadawa Mukakini(வடவா முகாக்கினி). Translated by Sarojini Devi Arunasalam (சரோஜினி தேவி அருணாசலம்). Most of her works recognized at state literacy award ceramony. She also received received presidential award for her work on 2018.

Fiction

 * වෙනසක් කල හැකිය (පද්‍ය) - Venasak Kala Hakiya
 * සුජාත පුත්‍රයන්ගේ වස්තුව - Sujatha Puthrayinge Wasthuwa
 * සඳමඬල (යොවුන්) - Sandamadala
 * කවුද හොරා (ළමා) - Kavuda Hora
 * රන්කලයේ නිදානය හා ඔරලෝසු නගරයේ සාදය (නව යොවුන්) Rankalaye Nidanaya Ha Oralosu Nagaraye Saadaya
 * බැම්ම (කෙටි කතා) Bamma
 * වඩබාගින්න Vadabaginna
 * வடவாமுகாக்கினி Vadawamukakkini  Vadabaginna Tamil Translation by Sarojini Arunachalam
 * 熱い紅茶 Atsui Kocha Vadabaginna Japanese translation by Reiko Nakamura
 * දඩකෙලිය Dadakeliya
 * සලාවැටුම Salawatuma
 * සපත්නි Sapathni
 * වපසරිය Wapasariya
 * වැසීගිය පෙත් මං Vaseegiya Peth Man

Non Fiction

 * සිංහල සාහිත්‍ය විචාරය
 * ගම්පෙරලිය විචාර නිබන්දන
 * ජාතක කතා සංග්‍රහය විචාර නිබන්දන
 * නව කවි සරණිය විචාර නිබන්දන
 * හංස සංදේශය විචාර නිබන්දන
 * හුණුවටයේ කතාව විචාර නිබන්දන