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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