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THE TRUTH ABOUT: Maali almeida - Caught on Camera

Holiday reading list: 10 standout books you’ll love under a beach umbrella

The holidays are a great time to bury yourself in a new read, so here are 10 books to keep you reading over the break.

The New Daily

Booker Prize winner lets ghosts of Sri Lanka's past speak

Shehan Karunatilaka wrote his Booker Prize-winning novel “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida” to give voice to Sri Lanka’s dead

The Independent UK

‘Writers all want to be rock stars’: Booker winner Shehan Karunatilaka on ghosts, war and childish dreams

Set during the Sri Lankan civil war and narrated by a dead man, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is part murder mystery, part political satire and part love story. Its author recalls the grim events that inspired it – and the editor who kept pushing him to do better

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Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka wins coveted Booker Prize

Shehan Karunatilaka, who was named as the winner of the Booker prize with his novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, is the second Sri Lankan writer to win the prize for novels written in English.

Radio France Internationale

Booker prize: Who is Shehan Karunatilaka and what is the Seven Moons of Maali Almeida about?

The journalist exposes the brutality of the Sri Lanka civil war, but with lightness and wit

Evening Standard

Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka scoops Booker Prize award

The 47-year-old won with his second novel The Seven Moons Of Maali Almeida

Wales Online

Shehan Karunatilaka: Cricket writer, satirist and Booker Prize winner

The author has won the prestigious 2022 award.

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Shehan Karunatilaka’s Booker winner is narrated by a dead man - but it’s a novel full of life

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, about a photographer during Sri Lanka’s civil war, has tremendous comic energy

The Guardian - UK

Booker Prize 2022 winner The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is compelling about conflict – but not a simple read

Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka has won this year’s £50,000 prize for a metaphysical thriller about the horrors of civil war. It’s easy to see why the judges liked it, writes Martin Chilton, but a shame to see Claire Keegan miss out for her moving novella

The Independent UK

Epic ghost story wins this year’s Booker Prize

Shehan Karunatilaka accepted the £50,000 prize for his novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida at a ceremony at the Roundhouse

Evening Standard

‘The story had been stirring in me for most of my life’: How I wrote a Booker-shortlisted novel

NoViolet Bulawayo, Percival Everett, Alan Garner and others reveal the inspiration for the books up for this year’s award

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