Novel by Sri Lanka's Shehan Karunatilaka wins Booker Prize
Writer Shehan Karunatilaka has won the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction on Monday for “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.”
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Writer Shehan Karunatilaka has won the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction on Monday for “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.”
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.”
Writer Shehan Karunatilaka has won the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction on Monday for "The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida."
LONDON (AP) -- Writer Shehan Karunatilaka won the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction on Monday for "The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida," a satirical "
LONDON (AP) — Writer Shehan Karunatilaka won the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction on Monday for “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida,” a satirical “afterlife noir” set during Sri Lanka’s brutal civil war.