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Pramudith D Rupasinghe
Rupasinghe Arachchi Pramudith Dhanaja (Sinhala රූපසිංහ   ආරච්චි   ප්‍රමුදිත්   ධනජ), known in pen name Pramudith D Rupasinghe, born on 16 September 1979, is a Sri Lankan novelist, a member of Royal Society of Literature, United Kingdom, and his novel Bayan was awarded Golden Aster Book Prize for Global Literature in 2020 by Aster Academy International, Rome, Italy

Among work so far, his first work of fiction, Behind the Eclipse, , set in across four countries in West Africa (Liberia, Guinea, Ivory Coast and Serra Leon), was listed by Pulse among the ten best work of fiction by Sri Lankan authors.

Career/Biography
Laureate of the Golden Aster Award for Global Literature 2020 for his historical fiction Bayan, Pramudith D. Rupasinghe has explored new horizons in writing with his unique writing style, “writing without borders” by being physically present in the places where his stories take place; I do not sit at my balcony and write instead, I live in the places where my characters are from and try to inhabit their world” Rupasinghe mentioned multiple times.

A Humanitarian by profession, Pramudith served in Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East for almost two decades until he embarked on his writing career following his semi-fiction “Footprints in Obscurity” (2015)   based on his visits to 29 territories in the African continent. Footprints in Obscurity was listed among the ten most extraordinary books written by male Sri Lankan authors

The following year (2016), he surfaced in the global writing ecosystem with his work of fiction “Behind the Eclipse” — a story set in the context of the West African Ebola Crisis, where he worked with the United Nations for over six years. Behind the Eclipse has been listed among the ten best books ever written by Sri Lankan authors who write in English.

Quitting Africa after two works of fiction, Rupasinghe adventured Ukraine just after the annexation of Crimea and the birth of the crisis in the eastern regions. Through a life of a 73 years old man, Rupasinghe not only depicted the calamitous dynamics in the region after the fall of the soviet union but also contained predictions about a potential occupation of the country: Bayan (15), a historical fiction set in Ukraine, won The Golden Aster Award for Global Literature, 2020.

Rupasinghe’s works are available globally and in several languages, including Russian, French, German, Burmese, Polish and Sinhala.

Rupasinghe occasionally writes for mainstream printed media on humanitarian issues. He also co-authored Disaster Recovery with Dr Joseph O Prewitt Dias