LONDON: Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka won the 2022 Booker Prize for fiction at a London ceremony on Monday for his work, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, about a murdered journalist.
“My hope for Seven Moons is this... that in the not-so-distant future... that it is read in a Sri Lanka that has understood that these ideas of corruption and race-baiting and cronyism have not worked and will never work.”
The 47-year-old author won international recognition with his 2010 debut novel, Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew.
It won the Commonwealth Prize, the Gratiaen Prize and was adjudged the second greatest cricket book of all time by Wisden.
Published in Dawn, October 18th, 2022
