Booker Prize Winner Shehan Karunatilaka
The judges for the 2022 Booker Prize praised Shehan Karunatilaka's winning novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida for the ambition of its scope and its hilarious audacity. Set amid Sri Lanka’s civil war, the darkly comic ghost story explores violence, corruption, love and memory with wit, political insight and unforgettable imagination. A new resident in Ōtautahi Christchurch, Shehan joins Brannavan Gnanalingam in conversation.
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Read the Booker write-up on Shehan's award-winning pukapuka here.
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Brannavan Gnanalingam
Brannavan Gnanalingam is a writer and lawyer based in Wellington. He has written seven novels, including Sprigs (2021),
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