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By Dhanuka Bandara Shehan Karunatilaka’s first novel, Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Matthew won immediate critical and public acclaim upon its publication in 2010. The manuscript of the novel had already won the Gratiaen Prize and there was some buzz about it in the Sri Lankan critical circles even before the novel’s publication. It certainly […]
Believe it or not, it was quite a task for Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka to find a UK publisher for his second novel 'The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida', which went on to win the prestigious Booker Prize - 2022. "Frankly, those in ...
He currently lives in Sri Lanka.Asked whether the peoples movement in Sri Lanka has helped unite Sinhalese and Tamils setting aside their differences, Karunatilaka said the young generations were united in their protest but there are a lot of people who are traumatised by the ethnic conflict, and they need to still heal.Well...