Romesh Gunesekera

Romesh Gunesekera is one of Sri Lanka’s most respected writers who was a finalist in the Man Booker Prize for his first novel
Reef. His second novel,
The Sandglass, was awarded the inaugural BBC Asia Award for Achievement in Writing and Literature. In 2004 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and is currently the Chair of the Judges of Commonwealth Short Story Prize.​​​​​

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