![]() ![]() ![]() In this interview, the Colombo-based writer speaks of his literary influences and why the novel went through a rigorous round of re-editing. ![]() “We won the Asia Cup (cricket tournament) but we haven’t had many victories in Sri Lanka in the last year,” he says. His phone hasn’t stopped buzzing since the time he became the second writer from Sri Lanka to win the Booker Prize for his novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida earlier this week. Big mistake! I was getting the manicure and I see all these bottles and I told the manicurist, ‘Can you put something black?’ and here we are!” he says, with a laugh. She said you are going to the Booker, you need to look nice. “My wife took me for a manicure before the award ceremony. The black nail paint on his fingers - “male polish”, he calls it - was a hat tip to his “juvenile rockstar ambitions”. Even though the time he gets to spend with his guitar is now decidedly less, Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka, 47, has lost none of his rockstar grunge. ![]()
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