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Articles for Shehan Karunatilaka

Giselle Harding: “GLF doesn’t take itself too seriously and that’s why it’s fun”
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Giselle Harding: “GLF doesn’t take itself too seriously and that’s why it’s fun”

Hindustan Times  

Please tell us about your role as the festival director and your journey in promoting literature in the region? Owning a bookshop in Sri Lanka, being an avid supporter of the Sri Lankan reading culture and with a background in events, Galle Literary Festival felt like a very natural endeavour — yet I was incredibly flattered to be approached by …

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Shehan Karunatilaka, Geetanjali Shree, Christopher Kloeble and Janice Pariat spill the beans on their craft - The Hindu
1 year, 9 months ago

Shehan Karunatilaka, Geetanjali Shree, Christopher Kloeble and Janice Pariat spill the beans on their craft - The Hindu

The Hindu  

Booker winner Shehan Karunatilaka does not enjoy reading romantic fiction as he finds the genre too “predictable”. Best translation recently read Sri Lankan Tamil author Shobasakthi’s works. Best translation recently read You can’t evaluate anything until you read the original and the translated work. Best translation recently read Benyamin’s Goat Days and more recently, Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag. Janice …

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Book Review | ‘The Birth Lottery and Other Surprises’ by Shehan Karunatilaka
2 years ago

Book Review | ‘The Birth Lottery and Other Surprises’ by Shehan Karunatilaka

The Hindu  

Published : Dec 01, 2022 10:25 IST The Birth Lottery and Other Surprises is funny. “Simply select filter.” “Assassin’s Paradise”, a formally inventive, epistolary-ish short story, is presented at first as a preface to the first edition of a banned book, about political killings in Sri Lanka written by one of its two authors. A Sri Lanka away from Sri …

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The startling originality of Shehan Karunatilaka
2 years, 1 month ago

The startling originality of Shehan Karunatilaka

Live Mint  

The most electrifying thing about Shehan Karunatilaka’s writing is its sheer chutzpah. Let’s start at the very beginning of his second novel, The Seven Moons Of Maali Almeida, which recently won the Booker Prize 2022. His death opens up the various strands of conflict in Sri Lanka’s civil war too, but first, Maali has to tell himself his own story, …

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Shehan Karunatilaka | Chronicler of dark days
2 years, 2 months ago

Shehan Karunatilaka | Chronicler of dark days

The Hindu  

A novel about Sri Lanka’s traumatic past has won the Booker Prize for 2022 even as the world is watching a traumatic present unfold in the island nation. Shehan Karunatilaka’s second novel, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, a decade after his prize-winning debut Chinaman, moved the judges for taking readers straight to “the world’s dark heart – the murderous …

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Explained: The Booker Prize, the 2022 winner Shehan Karunatilaka, and his work – Firstpost
2 years, 2 months ago

Explained: The Booker Prize, the 2022 winner Shehan Karunatilaka, and his work – Firstpost

Firstpost  

Founded in 1969, the Booker Prize initially rewarded authors who belonged to the Commonwealth. That’s the plot of The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, the book that won the prestigious Booker Prize this year. And once there, the reader also discovers the tenderness and beauty, the love and loyalty and the pursuit of an ideal that justify every human life.” …

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Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka wins 2022 Booker Prize for ‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida’
2 years, 2 months ago

Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka wins 2022 Booker Prize for ‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida’

The Hindu  

Published : Oct 18, 2022 11:54 IST Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka on October 17 won Britain’s Booker Prize for fiction for his work The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, about a journalist murdered amid the country’s sectarian strife. 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, …

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Booker Prize 2022 | The six shortlists: NoViolet Bulawayo, Claire Keegan, Alan Garner, Shehan Karunatilaka, Percival Everett, and Elizabeth Strout
2 years, 2 months ago

Booker Prize 2022 | The six shortlists: NoViolet Bulawayo, Claire Keegan, Alan Garner, Shehan Karunatilaka, Percival Everett, and Elizabeth Strout

The Hindu  

Watch | Booker Prize 2022 contenders From a longlist of 13 books, six novels made it to the 2022 Booker Prize shortlist. And it includes the shortest book and oldest author ever to be nominated, besides “writers from five countries and a wealth of fabulous fiction”, as the Booker website states. “I thought a ghost story would be an interesting …

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A conversation with Shehan Karunatilaka, winner of the Booker Prize 2022
2 years, 3 months ago

A conversation with Shehan Karunatilaka, winner of the Booker Prize 2022

The Hindu  

Published : Sep 07, 2022 18:30 IST Shehan Karunatilaka’s The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is the follow-up to his acclaimed debut Chinaman:The Legend of Pradeep Mathew. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida made the shortlist on September 6 for the Booker Prize 2022, before being declared this year’s winner on October 17. ”Shehan KarunatilakaAuthor, ‘The Seven Moons of Maali …

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