page_title: Premil Ratnayake
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Premil Ratnayake / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: Premil Ratnayake as a school boy next to his Trophies.
context_page_description: Ratnayake Mudianselage – Premil Ratnayake, was a Sri Lanka journalist, writer, diplomat, and former First Secretary. Ratnayake was a prominent journalist, having worked at the Lake House, working for the The Daily News and for Lalith Athulathmudali, at the Ministry of Trade and Shipping. He was later assigned to Bonn, Germany, as First Secretary, for Press and Information in 1984. He worked at The Island as well. In his retirement, he returned to The Daily News for a period.
context_section_description: Ratnayake was born on 3 April 1933, in Hatton, Ceylon. He was the fourth son of Mudianselage Marshal Ratnayake and Rossyln Paranavitanage. He had four siblings; Willy, Wimala, Edwin (former Commissioner of Labour) and Lal, former DIG. Ratnayake was an exceptionally talented student, athlete, boxer and cadet at Ananda College.
caption: Premil as a young school boy, next to his trophies.
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