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Indian parents want “soft, pre-digested, danger-free” stories for their children and “if there is an idea in it, they don’t like it”, said author Jerry Pinto while talking about why short fiction in the children’s section hasn’t caught on,…

I’m not a journalist. I wait 20 years, look back, make sure anyone who could take offence is dead and then I write.” Booker Prize-winner Shehan Karunatilaka is unlikely to make the protests of 2022 in Sri Lanka the theme of a book anytime…

The day Shehan Karunatilaka won the prestigious Booker Prize, all everyone could say was that it was absolutely ‘well-deserved’. Over the last few months, Shehan in several interviews has spoken about how he won the accolade at a rather…

The day Shehan Karunatilaka won the prestigious Booker Prize, all everyone could say was that it was absolutely ‘well-deserved’. Over the last few months, Shehan in several interviews has spoken about how he won the accolade at a rather…

Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka has been announced as the winner of the Booker Prize 2022 for his novel 'The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida'. Karunatilaka is the second author from Sri Lanka to win the prestigious award. The winner…

Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka won the Booker Prize on Monday for his second novel "The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida," about a dead war photographer on a mission in the afterlife. Karunatilaka received a trophy from Queen Consort…

LONDON: A barbed political satire about the fall of an African dictator, told from the perspective of talking animals. A mordantly comic novel about the inescapable horrors of racism in America. A bleak but slyly funny story that explores…