Wickramasinghe broke this mold. With Gamperaliya , he introduced to Sinhala prose. He did not write about kings and queens in palaces; he wrote about the village elite, the farmers, the creditors, and the changing social fabric of the Southern province. The novel won the inaugural Sahitya Award in Sri Lanka, cementing its place as the first genuine Sinhala novel with artistic merit.
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