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Booker Prize winner Shehan Karunatilaka on writing a good sex scene – By Benjamin Law Source : theage Each week, Benjamin Law asks public figures to discuss the subjects we’re told to keep private by getting them to roll a die. The numbers they land on are the topics they’re given. This week, he talks to Shehan Karunatilaka. The Sri Lankan author, 47, won the Commonwealth Book Prize, DSC Prize and Gratiaen Prize for his 2010 debut novel, Chinaman. His second novel, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, won last year’s Booker Prize. “I was a middle-class kid in Colombo who saw bodies on the road sometimes.” POLITICS The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is set in 1989, during the 1987-89 JVP insurrection, a period of Marxist armed revolt against the Sri Lankan government. You were almost a teenager at that time. What are your memories of the era? We lived with this idea of ...

Shehan Karunatilaka wins Booker prize for The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida Source : theguardian Judges described the Sri Lankan author’s second novel as a ‘rollercoaster journey through life and death’ and praised its audacity and ambition The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka has won the Booker prize for fiction. The judges praised the “ambition of its scope, and the hilarious audacity of its narrative techniques”. Karunatilaka’s second novel, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida comes more than a decade after his debut, Chinaman, which was published in 2011. The Booker-winning novel tells the story of the photographer of its title, who in 1990 wakes up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. With no idea who killed him, Maali has seven moons to contact the people he loves most and lead them to a hidden cache of photos of civil war atrocities that will rock Sri ...