Shehan Karunatilaka, who was named as the winner of the Booker prize with his novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, is the second Sri Lankan writer to win the prize for novels written in English.
"My hope for Seven Moons is this... that in the not-so-distant future... that it is read in a Sri Lanka that has understood that these ideas of corruption and race-baiting and cronyism have not worked and will never work," Shehan Karunatilaka said.
