Shehan Karunatilaka
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Who is this?
Shehan Karunatilaka (born 1975) is a Sri Lankan writer. He grew up in Colombo, studied in New Zealand and has lived and worked in London, Amsterdam and Singapore. His 2010 debut novel Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew won the Commonwealth Book Prize, the DSC Prize, the Gratiaen Prize and was adjudged the second greatest cricket book of all time by Wisden. His second novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (Sort of Books, 2022) was announced as the winner of the 2022 Booker Prize on 17 October 2022.
Career
- 1975Born
- 2022Won Booker Prize
- Notable work: Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew
- Notable work: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Trivia
- •Place of birth: Galle
- •Citizenship: Sri Lanka
- •Known as: writer
What happened recently
Spectral interlocutions and the politics of unfinished: Buddhism, haunting, and memory in Karunatilaka’s The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Booker Prize-winning authors Banu Mushtaq and Shehan Karunatilaka talk about life post the big win, the message that their books carry, and their next projects
Award-winning author Shehan Karunatilaka discusses purpose, joy of writing in Elon visit
Shehan Karunatilaka: ‘Choose Your Own Adventure books were my introduction to horror’
Booker Prize Winner Shehan Karunatilaka on Literature and Sri Lanka's Ongoing Crises
‘Writers all want to be rock stars’: Booker winner Shehan Karunatilaka on ghosts, war and childish dreams
Shehan Karunatilaka wins Booker Prize 2022 for 'The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida'
Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka wins Booker Prize for afterlife thriller
Shehan Karunatilaka’s Booker winner is narrated by a dead man - but it’s a novel full of life
Shehan Karunatilaka's 'The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida' wins 2022 Booker Prize
Booker Prize 2022: Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka wins with supernatural satire
Shehan Karunatilaka Wins Booker Prize for ‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida’ (Published 2022)
Shehan Karunatilaka on Kurt Vonnegut: ‘He's the genius I have robbed from the most'
Shehan Karunatilaka: ‘There’s a Sri Lankan gallows humour… we’ve been through a lot of catastrophes’
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