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The Guardian - UK
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Sarah Shaffi

Booker prize winner urges people not to circulate pirated copies of his novel

Shehan Karunatilaka.
Shehan Karunatilaka. Photograph: Sarah Lee/The Guardian

Booker prize-winning author Shehan Karunatilaka has asked people not to circulate pirated versions of his novel.

Karunatilaka won the prize on Monday for his second novel, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. In an Instagram story and a Facebook post two days after his win, Karunatilaka said it had “come to light that an unofficial and illegal” pdf version of his book was “doing the rounds on Sri Lankan social media”.

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