Eric Illayapparachchi (b. 1954) is a key contemporary Sri Lankan writer whose work spans fiction, poetry, art criticism, and cultural commentary. He is the author of well over thirty books and the recipient of twenty-two national literary awards. He wrote the opera Agni for a Sri Lankan maestro and adapted Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis to the screen. He has also written treatises on Rabindranath Tagore and Saadat Hasan Manto.