Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka wins Booker Prize 2022

Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka wins Booker Prize 2022

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Category : Awards Published on: October 19 2022

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Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka on Monday won Britain's Booker Prize for fiction for his work "The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida".
Karunatilaka received a trophy from Queen Consort Camilla at a ceremony on Monday night in London.
It was the English language literary award’s first in-person ceremony since 2019. The 47-year-old author also gets a 50,000 pound ($56,700) prize.
Karunatilaka is the second Sri Lankan to win the award, following Michael Ondaatje’s victory in 1992 for The English Patient, which was later turned into a blockbuster film.
The Booker was first awarded in 1969 and is the United Kingdom’s foremost literary award for novels written in English.
Last year the award went to South African Damon Galgut, while previous winners have included Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood and Hilary Mantel.
Geetanjali Shree first Indian to win International Booker Prize.

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