Daya Dissanayake is an award winning bi-lingual author, the only person to have won State Literary Award for English Novel twice. He won it for the first time for kat bitha which was his first novel. His second book The Saadhu Testament; is the first electronic novel by an Asian Author. He followed it up by releasing Wessan Novu Wedun also as an enovel thus becoming the first to publish a Sinhala Electronic Novel.
Daya's Chandraratnage Bawantara Charikawa (චන්ද්රරත්නගේ භවාන්තර චාරිකාව) was one of the joint winners of the first ever 'Swarna Pusthaka' award for the best Sinhala novel. The same year Evesdropper was recieved the literary award for the best English novel.
To date, daya has published eight novels and a collection of poems. He also contributes regularly to newspapers.