Kala Suri

Kala Suri කලා සූරී கலாசூரி
Awarded by The Government of Sri Lanka
Type	Title of honor/Order of merit
Eligibility	Sri Lankan citizens
Criteria	Highly notable service to the nation in Art,cinema and music
Status	Currently constituted
Statistics
First induction	1986
Last induction	2019
Precedence
Next (higher)	Kala Keerithi

The Kala Suri (Sinhala: කලා සූරී; Tamil: கலாசூரி, romanized: Kalācūri) is a Sri Lankan national honour awarded "for special contributions to the development of the arts".[1] It is conventionally used as a title or prefix to the awardee's name. Kala Suri ranks lower than Vidya Nidhi.

Awardees

Awardees include:

1984

• Arisen Ahubudu

1991

• Thangamma Appakutty[2]

1994

• Yolande Abeywira

1998

• Jiffry Yoonoos[3]
• Parakrama Kodituwakku[3]
• Dharmasiri Bandaranayake[3]
• G. S. B. Rani[3]
• S. A D. D. Samarasekera[3]
• D. V. Richard de Silva[3]
• Jayalath Manoratne[3]
• Tissa Abeysekera[3]
• A. Sivanesa Selvan[3]

2005

• Anne Ranasinghe[4]
• Anoma Rajakaruna[4]
• Barbara Sansoni Lewcock[4]
• Chandraguptha Thenuwara[4]
• Channa Wijewardena[4]
• Chitra Ranawake[4]
• Dulip Gabada Mudalige[4]
• Edward Jayakody[4]
• H. A. Perera[4]
• Harsh Makalanda[4]
• Inoka Sathyangani Keerthinanda[4]
• Jagath Weerasinghe[4]
• Janadasa Peiris[4]
• Latha Walpola[4]
• M. A. Nuhuman[4]
• Muhanned Mohideen Abdul Cader[4]
• Nelum Harasgama Nadaraja[4]
• Oosha Saravanamuttu[4]
• Parakrama Niriella[4]
• Pradeep Chandrasiri[4]
• Pushpakumara Kandegedara[4]
• R. Rushankan[4]
• Rajini Selvanayagam[4]
• Rohana Baddage[4]
• Rohanadeva Perera[4]
• Subramanium Vilvaratnam[4]
• Sarath Chandrajeewa[4]
• Somaratne Dissanayake[4]
• Stanley Omar[4]
• Sumathy Sivamohan[4]
• T. Shanathanan[4]
• Udaya Shantha Fernando[4]

References

1. Gunawardena, Charles A. (2005). Encyclopedia Of Sri Lanka. Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. p. 254. ISBN 9781932705485.
2. Thangamma Appakutty
3. "Deshamanya for 14 Lankans". Sundaytimes. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
4. "National Honours Part 2" (PDF). Government Press. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 December 2014. Retrieved 10 July 2013.

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