Booker Prize 2022: Why Sri Lanka's Shehan Karunatilaka is the world's literary darling
Karunatilaka, one of Sri Lanka’s leading authors, won the award for his second novel
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Karunatilaka, one of Sri Lanka’s leading authors, won the award for his second novel
The oldest author ever nominated - 88-year-old Alan Garner - is one of six novelists in the running.
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LONDON (AP) — The winner of the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction will be chosen Monday from among six novels that explore the impact of personal and historical traumas on individual lives.
'The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida' author Shehan Karunatilaka is the second Sri Lankan-born writer to win the Booker Prize, after Michael Ondaatje.