Shehan Karunatilaka

Shehan Karunatilaka is a Sri Lankan writer who grew up in Colombo and studied in New Zealand. His debut novel, Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew, published in 2010, won the Commonwealth Book Prize, the DSC Prize and the Gratiaen Prize, and Wisden named it the second greatest cricket book of all time. His second novel, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, a work of magical realism, won the 2022 Booker Prize.