The Kala Keerthi (Sinhala: කලා කීර්ති) is a Sri Lankan national honour awarded "for extraordinary achievements and contributions in arts, culture and drama".[1] It is the highest national honour for arts, culture and drama in Sri Lanka. It is conventionally used as a title or prefix to the awardee's name. Kala Keerthi ranks lower than Vidya Jyothi.
^Gunawardena, Charles A. (2005). Encyclopedia Of Sri Lanka. Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. p. 254. ISBN 9781932705485.
The KalaKeerthi (Sinhala: කලා කීර්ති) is a Sri Lankan national honour awarded "for extraordinary achievements and contributions in arts, culture and drama"...
Girija. Kala, choreographer; sister of Girija. Prasanna Sujit, choreographer; nephew of Kala. Keerthi Shanthanu, video jockey; niece of Kala. (see Bhagyaraj...
KalaKeerthi Monica Ruwanpathirana (Sinhala: මොනිකා රුවන්පතිරණ) (1946 – 2004) was a Sri Lankan poet and writer. She is considered one of the most acclaimed...
In March 2017 President of Sri Lanka Maithripala Sirisena awarded national honours to 90 individuals for distinguished services. It was the first time...
Wijeyesekera (born 1942), academic Forty two individuals received the KalaKeerthi honour: Tilak Abeysinghe Jackson Anthony (born 1958), actor Dharmasiri...
Diyanath Samarasinghe R. O. Barnes Wijesekera Five individuals received the KalaKeerthi honour: Dharmasiri Jayakody Nalini Jayasuriya Premasiri Khemadasa (1937–2008)...
KalaKeerthi Vimukthi Jayasundara (Sinhala: විමුක්ති ජයසුන්දර) is a Sri Lankan filmmaker, critic and a visual artist. Jayasundara is the first Sri Lankan...
KalaKeerthi Sybil Wettasinghe (Sinhala: සිබිල් වෙත්තසිංහ) (31 October 1927 – 1 July 2020) was a children's book writer and an illustrator in Sri Lanka...
Derana Film Awards) Won – Contribution to Cinema Swarna Rajani Award (by Kala Lanka Foundation) Won – Contribution to Drama Felicitation Award (by Malani...
Shyam Selvadurai (born 12 February 1965) is a Sri Lankan Canadian novelist. He is most noted for his 1994 novel Funny Boy, which won the Books in Canada...
Himalaya tharanaya kala Arjuna kumarayage Kathava Wanaraya Acharya Bryan De Cretser, Ohy saha ohuge adahas Kalawa, Samajawadaya saha Kala Vicharaya Suddilage...
posterity and to the development of the arts and culture of Sri Lanka. KalaKeerthi – Presidential award. Honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Fine Arts)...
awarded A-Grade by Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation. She has won the 'KalaKeerthi Abhimani' award for her contribution to Sri Lanka's music industry. Umaria...
Sumana Gomes (born 23 May 1962: Sinhala: සුමනා ගෝමස්), is a Sri Lankan cinema actress. Often regarded as the "sexiest actress in Sri Lankan film history"...
Sri Lankabhimanya Lester James Peries (Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකාභිමාන්ය ලෙස්ටර් ජේම්ස් පීරිස්; 5 April 1919 – 29 April 2018) was a Sri Lankan film director...
director and educator from Sri Lanka. She received both the Kala Suri and the KalaKeerthi in recognition of her contribution to Sri Lankan theatre. Somalatha...
KalaKeerthi Jayantha Chandrasiri (ජයන්ත චන්ද්රසිරි; born 1959), is a Sri Lankan journalist, screenplay writer, television director, and filmmaker in...
Obeysekera (1937 – 2017), was a Sri Lankan film director and screenwriter. KalaKeerthi Vasantha Obeysekera who was regarded as one of the foremost film makers...
Asoka Handagama (born December 1962) is a Sri Lankan filmmaker. He obtained his primary and secondary schooling in a provincial school and went on to study...
Walpola contributed to nearly 600 films during her career. Walpola won the Kala Suri award from the Sri Lankan government in 2005. In 2017, she was awarded...
niece Keerthi, daughter of Jayanthi Master and wife of actor Shanthanu Baghyaraj, as an anchor in her dance reality show Manada Mayilada. Kala was previously...
lookout G.R Perera as Doorway shooting victim The score was composed by KalaKeerthi Premasiri Khemadasa and includes a song popular to this day; sung by...
KalaKeerthi Vini Vitharana (Sinhala: විනි විතාරන) (2 June 1928 – 2 December 2019) was a Sri Lankan Sinhalese linguist, professor, lecturer and a scholar...
KalaKeerthi Carl Muller (22 October 1935 – 2 December 2019) was an award-winning Sri Lankan writer, poet and journalist best known for his trilogy about...
Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto, Op. 58. She was awarded the title of KalaKeerthi by the government of Sri Lanka in 1993, that nation’s highest honor in...
afterwards. Peries died on January 19, 2023, at the age of 87. The title of KalaKeerthi by the Government of Sri Lanka in 2005 The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold...
Kumara Vidugalage Dona Geetha Samanmalee Kumarasinghe (born 5 July 1955: Sinhala: ගීතා කුමාරසිංහ), popularly known as Geetha Kumarasinghe, is a Sri Lankan...