Writer Shehan Karunatilaka won the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction on Oct 17 for The Seven Moons Of Maali Almeida, a satirical "afterlife noir” set during Sri Lanka’s brutal civil war.
Karunatilaka, one of Sri Lanka’s leading authors, won the £50,000 pound (RM268,000) award for his second novel. The 47-year-old, who has also written journalism, children’s books, screenplays and rock songs, is the second Sri Lanka-born Booker Prize winner, after Michael Ondaatje, who took the trophy in 1992 for The English Patient.
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