Nihal De Silva (19?? – 28 May 2006) was a Sri Lankan novelist. He won the Gratiaen Prize for his novel The Road From Elephant Pass [1] which was later made into a film. He also published The Far Spent Day and The Ginirella Conspiracy. [2]

The Road From Elephant Pass is a novel by Nihal De Silva. It won the 2003 Gratiaen Prize for creative writing in English. The novel was also nominated as a selection for the Sri Lankan Advanced Level Literature examinations. It has been given the themes of war and survival.

Nihal de Silva was a man of many facets; an award winning author, entrepreneur, Rotarian, keen golfer, lover of wild life and nature, parish councillor, as well as a member of various other service associations. He was indeed a remarkable man, but remained modest and unassuming.

2017年5月3日 · When he wrote the novel, Nihal de Silva seemed to have a clear vision on the ethnic conflict and told Subramanian that "When we talk of the conflict, we always seem to focus on the differences between the Sinhalese and Tamils, which is mainly the language. But we also have a lot of things in common.”

2010年9月4日 · Sri Lankan novelist and avid naturalist Nihal de Silva was killed tragically in a landmine explosion in 2006 in Wilpattu National Park. His first novel The Road from Elephant Pass won the...

2003年1月1日 · Sri Lankan novelist Nihal de Silva wrote the award-winning novel "The Road from Elephant Pass" in 2003. It is about the 26-year-old Sri Lankan civil war between Sinhalese and Tamils and he was killed by a land mine explosion in the Wilpattu National Park in Sri Lanka on May 28, 2006, thus becoming a victim of Tamil terrorism that he was writing ...

Nihal de Silva is the author of The Road From Elephant Pass (3.95 avg rating, 554 ratings, 44 reviews, published 2003), The Giniralla Conspiracy ; Five J...

The Road from Elephant Pass is a novel by Nihal De Silva. It won the 2003 Gratiaen Prize for creative writing in English. This novel is nominated as a selection for the Sri Lankan Advanced Level Literature examinations.