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‘Don’t read just one book about Sri Lanka’: VV Ganeshananthan on her civil war novel

Women’s prize for fiction winner tells story of a family caught up in conflict in her second novel, Brotherless Night

The Guardian - UK

Life after death in Sri Lanka with Booker Prize-winning author Shehan Karunatilaka

As his year of publicity madness draws to a close after winning the world's most prestigious prize for an English-language book in 2022 – the Booker – Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka comes to FRANCE 24 to talk about the novel that made him famous. "The Seven Moons of Maali…

France 24

How Choose Your Own Adventures helped me win the Booker prize

Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka on how the gamebooks he grew up with became a literary gateway for curious young readers around the world

The Guardian - UK

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Abdulrazak Gurnah, Yuval Noah Harari, Salman Rushdie, Rutger Bregman, Elif Shafak, Robin Sharma: Times Litfest 2023 had the biggest names ever at any Litfest!

After a two-year hiatus due to Corona, the Times Literature Festival re-emerged in its physical avatar with a bang this year. On February 11 and 12, 2023, the Times Literature Festival (TLF) was held at the Siri Fort Auditorium in New Delhi, and it witnessed the coming together of some…

The Times of India

‘I may write about 2022 Lanka protests in 20 years’

I’m not a journalist. I wait 20 years, look back, make sure anyone who could take offence is dead and then I write.”

The Times of India

Booker Prize announces reader competition to name trophy

Prestigious literary competition wants readers to name the female-figured statuette

The Independent UK

Trysts With Sri Lanka’s Ghosts

In the Booker Prize-winning “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida,” the past haunts a country racked by unresolved death.

Foreign Policy

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The Quiz of the Year 2022

It was the year of strikes, sewage and Sue Gray’s report, but how well do you really remember 2022? Let quiz master Nick Curtis put you to the test

Evening Standard

The best books to give as presents this Christmas

Authors and Observer critics choose the books they will be giving as gifts this year – and the one they’d like to find in their own stocking

The Guardian - UK

Best fiction of 2022

Dazzling invention from Jennifer Egan, a state-of-the nation tale from Jonathan Coe and impressive debut novels and short stories are among this year’s highlights

The Guardian - UK

The five best fiction books of 2022

In 2022, we saw Annie Ernaux win the Nobel prize for literature for her uncompromising writing about her experiences. Shehan Karunatilaka won the Booker prize for his darkly comic Sri Lankan political satire, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.

The Conversation

What does this year’s double Booker win mean for south Asian literature?

With Sri Lanka’s Shehan Karunatilaka and India’s Geetanjali Shree taking home two of publishing’s biggest prizes, what next for one of the world’s most overlooked literary regions?

The Guardian - UK

This North Texas author is shining a light on Desi authors from around the globe

Jenny Bhatt was born in Gujarat, India, grew up in Bombay, and has lived and worked around the globe. But for the past several years, she has made her home in the Dallas area and established an international reputation as a writer, translator, literary critic, podcaster and instructor.

Tribune News Service

Shehan Karunatilaka: ‘Choose Your Own Adventure books were my introduction to horror’

The Booker-winning author on Vietnam war stories and the brutality of Jane Austen

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The Independent UK

Booker Prize winner lets ghosts of Sri Lanka's past speak

Shehan Karunatilaka wrote his Booker Prize-winning novel “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida” to give voice to Sri Lanka’s dead

inkl Originals

The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 22 October 2022

Well, that was quick. This week Liz Truss resigned. She's left her party, and country, in a shambolic state.

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on the Booker: one award with hundreds of judges

Editorial: Many have an opinion on the latest winner of the UK’s top literary prize, Shehan Karunatilaka. It’s a shame not all of them have read his book

The Guardian - UK

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

Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka spent seven years writing The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, which won the prestigious award on Monday, and asks readers to honour the work put into it

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‘Writers all want to be rock stars’: Booker winner Shehan Karunatilaka on ghosts, war and childish dreams

Set during the Sri Lankan civil war and narrated by a dead man, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is part murder mystery, part political satire and part love story. Its author recalls the grim events that inspired it – and the editor who kept pushing him to do better

Radio France Internationale

Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka wins coveted Booker Prize

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.

Evening Standard

I self-censored work after Salman Rushdie attack, says Booker winner

Booker Prize winner Shehan Karunatilaka says he considers whether causing offence will “cost you more than you anticipated”

Evening Standard

Booker prize: Who is Shehan Karunatilaka and what is the Seven Moons of Maali Almeida about?

The journalist exposes the brutality of the Sri Lanka civil war, but with lightness and wit

The Conversation

Shehan Karunatilaka wins Booker prize for Sri Lankan political satire, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Sri Lankan novelist Shehan Karunatilaka has won the 2022 Booker Prize for his second novel, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.

The Guardian - AU

Booker prize: it has been six years since an Australian was nominated. What gives?

The prize still holds immense power for Australian sales, but a 2014 rule change made it harder for local books to get a look-in

Los Angeles Times

Shehan Karunatilaka's 'The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida' wins 2022 Booker Prize

"The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida" by Shehan Karunatilaka won the 2022 Booker Prize on Monday at the Roundhouse in London.

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