2022 Booker Prize winner Shehan Karunatilaka: 'You don't know who you're going to offend' in Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan novelist Shehan Karunatilaka on growing up amid civil war, turning trauma into satire, and winning this year’s prize.
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Sri Lankan novelist Shehan Karunatilaka on growing up amid civil war, turning trauma into satire, and winning this year’s prize.
Karunatilaka won the Booker Prize for "The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida," a political satire about Sri Lanka's decadeslong civil war.
Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka on Monday (local time) wons 2022 Booker Prize for fiction - The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.We are delighted to announ
The judges said Karunatilaka’s book The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida was an afterlife noir that showed ‘deep humanity’.
The prestigious prize annually recognizes the best novel written in the English and published in the U.K.