| Cyril C. Perera | |
| Birth Date: | 3 June 1923 |
| Birth Place: | Colombo, Sri Lanka |
| Death Place: | Colombo, Sri Lanka |
| Language: | Sinhalese |
| Nationality: | Sri Lankan |
| Alma Mater: | Colombo Technical College |
Cyril C. Perera (3 June 1923 – 4 September 2016) was a Sri Lankan author of Sinhala literature who was well known for his translations of world literature into Sinhalese.[1] His translations included novels, short stories, poems, stage plays, and children's literature.[2] [3] [4] [5]
Perera was born in Colombo and attended various schools there. He studied art, architecture, and building engineering at Colombo Technical College and later joined government service.[1] He worked as a building designer in the Ministry of Health.
| Title | Original author | Original work | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Novels | |||
| යුද්ධය හා සාමය | Leo Tolstoy | War and Peace | |
| පෙමතො ජායති සොකො | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| මිනිසා ජීවත් වන්නේ කුමකින්ද? | Leo Tolstoy | The Kreutzer Sonata | |
| මෛත්රී කරුණාව | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| මළ මිනිස්සු | Nikolai Gogol | Dead Souls | |
| පෙරළුැ නැවුම් පස | Mikhail Sholokov | Virgin Soil Upturned | |
| ගැඹුරු මුහුද | Arthur C. Clarke | The Deep Range | |
| ධවල තල්මසාගේ කතා පුවත | Herman Melville | Moby-Dick | |
| වෘකයන් අතර නග්නව | Bruno Apitz | Naked Among Wolves | |
| එමා බෝවාරි | Gustav Flaubert | Madame Bovary | |
| මහල්ලා සහ මුහුද | Ernest Hemingway | The Old Man and the Sea | |