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20/10/22 06:50 AM IST

Booker Prize

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  • Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka, whose supernatural satire set amid the island nation's brutal civil war won the Booker Prize.
About Karunatilaka 
  • Karunatilaka's novel ‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida’ is about a photographer who wakes up dead, with a week to ask his friends to find his photos and expose the brutality of war.
  • Karunatilaka, 47, became only the second Sri Lankan born to win the prestigious GBP 50,000 literary prize at a ceremony in London on Monday night, after Michael Ondaatje who won for ‘The English Patient’ in 1992.
  • Karunatilaka received a trophy from Queen Consort Camilla at the English language literary award's first in-person ceremony since 2019. He also gets a 50,000 pound ($56,810) prize.
  • Karunatilaka, who was born in Galle in 1975 and grew up in Colombo, said he decided in 2009 to write “a ghost story where the dead could offer their perspective” after the end of the Sri Lankan civil war.
Source- Indian Express 

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