Romesh Gunesekera

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Romesh Gunesekera (2012)

Romesh Gunesekera (* 1954 in Colombo ) is a Sri Lankan writer who lives in Great Britain and writes in English.

Life

Romesh Gunesekera grew up in Sri Lanka and the Philippines , where his father worked as a banker, before moving to England in 1971. After studying English and Philosophy in Liverpool , he moved to London in 1976, where he worked for the British Council .

Gunesekera received an Arts Council Writers' Award in 1991 and published a collection of short stories called Monkfish Moon in 1992 . His first novel, Reef , received a Yorkshire Post Book Award in 1994 and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize . Gunesekera has been working as a freelance writer since 1996.

In 2004 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature . Gunesekera lives and works in London .

Gunesekera writes prose, the subjects of which are set in Sri Lanka.

Works (selection)

  • Noontide great . Short Stories 2013
  • The Prisoner of Paradise . 2012
  • The match . Bloomsbury 2006
  • Heaven's Edge . Bloomsbury 2002
    • At the edge of the sky . Novel. Translated from the English by Bernhard Kleinschmidt. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2005
  • The sandglass . Granta 1998
    • Sandglass . Novel. Translated from the English by Gio Waeckerlin. Unionsverlag, Zurich 1999
  • Reef . Granta 1994
    • Reef . Translated from the English by Gio Waeckerlin. Zurich: Unionsverl. 1998
  • Monkfish Moon . Granta 1992

literature

Web links

Commons : Romesh Gunesekera  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Susheila Nasta: Romesh Gunesekera  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at British Council (2002)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / literature.britishcouncil.org  
  2. ↑ Maya Jaggi: Lost horizons , The Guardian , May 5, 2007
  3. ↑ Deborah Treisman: This Week in Fiction: Romesh Gunesekera , The New Yorker , November 25, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Gunesekera, Romesh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sri Lankan writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Colombo