Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka wins Booker Prize

Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka poses next to Britain's Camilla, Queen Consort after winning the British Booker Prize for his novel"The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida", during the Booker Prize for Fiction 2022 awards ceremony, in London, on October 17, 2022. AFPPIX

“I hope it’s in print in 10 years but if it is, I hope it’s written in Sri Lanka that learns from its stories, and that Seven Moons will be in the fantasy section of the bookshop... next to the dragons, the unicorns will not be mistaken for realism or political satire,“ he added. Chair of judges, Neil MacGregor, called the book “an afterlife noir that dissolves the boundaries not just of different genres, but of life and death, body and spirit, east and west”.War photographer and gambler Maali Almeida has been killed, and sets out in the afterlife to work out who was responsible and expose the brutality of the conflict, having seven moons in which to do so.

Garner, who made his name with children’s fantasy titles and folk retellings, was shortlisted for “Treacle Walker”, which is the shortest finalist novel by word count.

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