The Booker Prizes | Shehan Karunatilaka answers questions about 'The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida' | The Booker Prize @TheBookerPrizes | Uploaded October 2022 | Updated October 2024, 2 minutes ago.
Shehan Karunatilaka answers readers' questions about his novel 'The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida' shortlisted for the #BookerPrize2022

Find out more about the novel: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/authors/shehan-karunatilaka

He talks about his writing inspiration including

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Sandman by Neil Gaiman
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

Plus talks of his love of ‘Uncle’ Kurt Vonnegut and Stephen King.
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The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.

Previous winners include The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, Midnight Children by Salman Rushdie, The Promise by Damon Galgut, Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Bone People by Keri Hulme and many more.

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