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Booker Prize winner: Attack on Salman Rushdie caused me to self-censor

Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka won the prize just over two months after Sir Salman was stabbed in New York.

The Independent UK · Oct 17, 2022

Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka scoops Booker Prize award

The 47-year-old won with his second novel The Seven Moons Of Maali Almeida

Wales Online · Oct 17, 2022

Shehan Karunatilaka: Cricket writer, satirist and Booker Prize winner

The author has won the prestigious 2022 award.

The Independent UK · Oct 17, 2022

Booker Prize 2022 winner The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is compelling about conflict – but not a simple read

Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka has won this year’s £50,000 prize for a metaphysical thriller about the horrors of civil war. It’s easy to see why the judges liked it, writes Martin Chilton, but a shame to see Claire Keegan miss out for her moving novella

The Independent UK · Oct 17, 2022

Shehan Karunatilaka wins Booker Prize 2022 for political satire The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, set during Sri Lankan Civil War

The 50,000-pound ($86,000) prize was awarded to copywriter-turned-author Shehan Karunatilaka, for a novel about a ghost trying to solve his own murder in 1989 during Sri Lanka's Civil War.

ABC News · Oct 17, 2022

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

Author jokingly asked if he could get £50,000 prize in cryptocurrency

The Independent UK · Oct 17, 2022

Epic ghost story wins this year’s Booker Prize

Shehan Karunatilaka accepted the £50,000 prize for his novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida at a ceremony at the Roundhouse

Evening Standard · Oct 17, 2022

Shehan Karunatilaka wins Booker prize for The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Judges described the Sri Lankan author’s second novel as a ‘rollercoaster journey through life and death’ and praised its audacity and ambition

The Guardian - UK · Oct 17, 2022

Camilla brings sister to Booker Prize ceremony and meets Dua Lipa

Camilla was wearing a black lace cocktail dress by Fiona Clare at the event in London.

The Independent UK · Oct 17, 2022

How to win the Booker prize: is there a formula for ‘the finest in fiction’?

They say that everyone has a book in them. But how about a Booker prize? That’s probably what the six shortlisted authors of the Booker prize 2022 will be wondering as they count down the days to the live-streamed awards ceremony.

The Conversation · Oct 14, 2022