Palitha GanewattaPalitha Ganewatta was born in Sri Lanka and obtained his Ph.D. from Moscow Friendship University in 1987. He migrated to Australia in 1992 where he made his home. He was employed by Australian Federal Government and also worked as a Broadcaster and Jurnalist in Special Broadcasting Service in Australia (SBS) for 21 years. He has translated Anton Chekhov's short stories from original Russian to his mother tongue, Sinhalese. He has published short stories, novels and poems in Sinhalese language and currently engaged in translating Reymond Carver's American short stories into his mother tongue. Read More Read Less