A v suraweera biography
Suraweera was a Sri Lankan academic, historian, literary critic and politician.
Alankarage Victor Suraweera, born on October 29, , is a.!
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Professor A. V. Suraweera- An Appreciation RATNASIRI ARANGALA Professor Alankārage Victor Suraweera, a life member of the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka, who was born in 12th October 1930 in Korasa, a village in present Gampaha district, passed away in 14th January 2014 at the age of 83 years.
Suraweera had his primary education at the vernacular government school in his own village and Government English school at Gampaha, and attended Royal College for his secondary education. He entered the University of Ceylon in 1950 as a student of the first batch of Sinhalese Honours Program and obtained his B.A.
in 1954 with a First Class Honours.
He is also a novelist.In 1957, he obtained M.A. in Sinhala for the critical edition of the last four chapters of Pūjāvaliya, a 13th century classical text, together with an critical introduction, under the supervision of Professor D. E. Hettiarachchi. In 1964 Suraweera obtained his Ph.D.
for the critical edition of Rājāv