Piyaseeli Wijegunasingha (February 20, 1943 - September 2, 2010) was a Trotskyist, a Marxist scholar and a member of Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)

Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)

The Socialist Equality Party is a Trotskyist political party in Sri Lanka. It was founded in 1968 as the Revolutionary Communist League by former student members of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party who joined the International Committee of the Fourth International. They remained loyal to Gerry Healy...

 from 1968. She worked as a lecturer for 44 years at University of Colombo

University of Colombo

The University of Colombo is a public research university located primarily in Colombo, Sri Lanka...

, Sri Lanka.

Books

Following were written in Sinhala and no English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 translation is available as of now.

• A Materialist Study of Literature (1982)
• A Marxist Study of Modern Sinhala Literary Criticism (1987)
• A Reply to Sucharitha Gamlath: Marxist Principles on Criticism of the Arts (1995)
• The god of small things: A review and a reply (2004)

Translations

The year of the publication of Sinhala translation is shown with titles.

• The Heritage We Defend by David North
  David North (Socialist)
  David North is an American Trotskyist. He is the national chairman of the Socialist Equality Party in the United States , formerly the Workers League. He served as the national secretary of the SEP until the party's congress in 2008...
  
   (1990)
• Gerry Healy and His Place in the History of the Fourth International by David North, Part 1 (1991) and Part 2 (1993)
• Bolshevism and the Avant-Garde Artists by David Walsh
  David Walsh (writer)
  David Walsh, born in New York City, New York, is a film critic and political writer for the World Socialist Web Site.- Works :* French Workers in Revolt: A New Stage in the Class Struggle, November–December 1995. ISBN 1-973045-22-4...
  
   (1993)
• The Aesthetic Component of Socialism by David Walsh (1998)
• In Defence of Marxism by Leon Trotsky
  Leon Trotsky
  Leon Trotsky , born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army....
  
   (2002)

Film Reviews

• Fire: A film which bears witness to Deepa Mehta's courage as an artist, the review of Deepa Mehta's
  Deepa Mehta
  Deepa Mehta, LLD is a Genie Award-winning Indian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter, most known for her Elements Trilogy, Fire , Earth , and Water , among which Earth was submitted by Indian government for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film...
  
   1996 film Fire was originally published in Sinhalese in Kamkaru Mawatha , the newspaper of the Socialist Equality Party in Sri Lanka, on May 29 and June 12, 1998.
• Life is not the problem, but the conditions under which it is offered, Pavuru Valalu (Walls Within), directed by Prasanna Vithanage
  Prasanna Vithanage
  Prasanna Vithanage is one of Sri Lanka's most notable filmmakers. His films have won many awards, both local and international....
  
  , screenplay by Tony Ranasingha.
• How war has shattered the life of a Sri Lankan village, Pura Handa Kaluwara (Death on a Full Moon Day), written and directed by Prasanna Vithanage
  Prasanna Vithanage
  Prasanna Vithanage is one of Sri Lanka's most notable filmmakers. His films have won many awards, both local and international....
  
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• In the classical realist tradition, Sisila Gini Gani (Ice on Fire), directed by Prasanna Vithanage
  Prasanna Vithanage
  Prasanna Vithanage is one of Sri Lanka's most notable filmmakers. His films have won many awards, both local and international....
  
  , script Sanath Gunathilaka and music by Premasiri Khemadasa
  Premasiri Khemadasa
  Dr.Premasiri Khemadasa also known as "Khemadasa Master" is one of the most influential composers in Sri Lankan music. Exploring the various styles of music around the world Khemadasa endeavored to develop a unique style of music...
  
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• The impact of war on daily life in Sri Lanka, Ira Mediyama (August Sun), written and directed by Prasanna Vithanage
  Prasanna Vithanage
  Prasanna Vithanage is one of Sri Lanka's most notable filmmakers. His films have won many awards, both local and international....
  
  .

Other reviews

• A serious attempt to encourage Sri Lankan opera, Sonduru Varnadasi (The Alluring Courtesan), directed by Premasiri Khemadasa
  Premasiri Khemadasa
  Dr.Premasiri Khemadasa also known as "Khemadasa Master" is one of the most influential composers in Sri Lankan music. Exploring the various styles of music around the world Khemadasa endeavored to develop a unique style of music...
  
  , libretto by Lucien Bulathsinghala.