Sri Lankan diplomat translates Jairam Ramesh’s book into Sinhala

Sri Lankan deputy high commissioner Niluka Kadurugamuwa, who is a well-known translator of books, has translated Indian author and Congress leader Jairam Ramesh’s book ‘The Light of Asia: The poem that defined the Buddha’ into Sinhala.

Ramesh is a member of the Rajya Sabha representing Karnataka and was a Union minister during 2006-2014. He has authored several well-known books.

Kadurugamuwa is an officer of the Sri Lanka Foreign Service who has been serving as the deputy high commissioner in New Delhi since 2019. He won Sri Lanka’s State Literary Award for best translation of a novel into Sinhala in 2018, 2019 and 2022.

In the past, Kadurugamuwa has translated books such as Orhan Pamuk’s novel ‘The Red-Haired Woman’, Isabel Allende’s novel ‘Island Beneath The Sea’, Mario Puzo’s novel ‘Six Graves To Munich’, Gabriel Garcia Márquez’s novel In ‘Evil Hour’, and Amitav Ghosh’s ‘The Glass Palace’.