H. M. Kudaligama
Hewawasam Mudiyanselage Munidasa Kudaligama (1918 – 21 August 1973 ), popularly known as H. M. Kudaligama was a prominent Sri Lankan poet, journalist and a writer. Kudaligama was a poet of the second generation of Colombo era. Personal life He was born in 1918 in Kalugangabada village in Kudaligama, Kalutara, Sri Lanka. After completing his primary education from a village missionary school, he later received his higher education at the Dharma Vijaya Pirivena. After studies, Kudaligama later worked in the plantation industry in Rajawatte. Although he worked at the Lake House as a proofreader, he was a leftist and a Trotskyist. His eldest son Geethanath Kudaligama is a media consultant, lyric writer and an explorative author. Geethanath has compiled all Kudaligama's published and unpublished poems and published a book called 'Manbandi Panhinda'. When he was ill at the Colombo General Hospital, he slept on a bench and on the floor in the ward corridor. During this period, The Department of Cultural Affairs has donated Rs. 500 to him. He died on 21 August 1973 in Gothatuwa. Career At the age of sixteen, Kudaligama began composing poems for various newspapers and magazines. He preferred to write rather than recite poetry and