His maternal great-grandfather was Central-African born general Abram Petrovich Gannibal. His mother, Nadezhda (Nadya), Ossipovna Gannibal descended from German and Scandinavian nobility through her paternal grandmother. He hailed from the Russian nobility his father Sergey Lvovich Pushkin descended from a distinguished family of the Russian elite that traced its ancestry back to the 12th century. It is perhaps why since 1880, translations into other languages were imperfect, especially into English.Īlexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was born on in Moscow during the Russian Empire. Translators found it challenging to understand the poetic meaning of Pushkin’s words to portray his character and events. It has taken him six years to do, and Dr Withanage becomes the 46th translator in English, and simultaneously in Sinhala for the Sri Lankan audience. Pushkin’s novel in verse has been translated into English as many as 45 times since 1800, but this is the first time that it has been translated into Sinhala directly from Russian by Dr Withhange, taking into account the Soviet era in the 1800s. His first medical novel, Living Capsule, dealt with a clinical problem that any surgeon had to battle. Recently during the COVID-19 epidemic using his experience, he wrote his latest novel called The Pond, Butterflies and Rainbow He has published many books in Sinhala and English. After a heavy day’s work at the hospital theatre, he took up writing for relaxation. Dr Withanage was a senior surgeon who worked for over twenty years in the NHS UK. The masterpiece of the Great Russian poet Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin’s novel ‘ Eugene and Onegin’ is translated into Sinhala for the first time by Dr Athula Withanage, who has written many books in Sinhala and English.
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