Writer Shehan Karunatilaka has won the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction on Monday for “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.” The book is an “afterlife noir” set during Sri Lanka’s
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The 47-year-old, who has also written journalism, children’s books, screenplays and rock songs, is the second Sri Lanka-born booker Prize winner, after Michael Ondaatje, who took the trophy in 1992 for “The English Patient.”