Romesh Gunesekera

May 21, 2024 | thebookerprizes.com | Granta Books |Jenny Erpenbeck |Michael Hofmann |Romesh Gunesekera

Today, May 21, Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Michael Hofmann, is announced as the winner of the International Booker Prize 2024 Publication date and time: Published 21 May 2024 - 22:00 BST‘It’s a private story of a big love and its decay, but it’s also a story of the dissolution of a whole political system.

Apr 21, 2024 | bibliosurf.com | Romesh Gunesekera

Voici un roman délicat sur la fragilité du monde et la perte de l’innocence, tout autant qu’une déclaration d’amour à l’art culinaire. Nous sommes en 1962 à Ceylan, futur Sri Lanka. Triton, 11 ans, est engagé comme domestique par Mr Salgado, biologiste marin passionné par les récifs coraliens et préoccupé par leur extinction. Dehors, Cinghalais et Tamouls s’opposent, l’instabilité politique s’installe ; mais à l’abri de la maison, le garçon devient le cuisinier officiel de Mr Salgado.

Mar 23, 2024 | independent.co.uk | Romesh Gunesekera

Looking at my shelves, I spot two dusty paperbacks with creased, wrinkled spines. The pages are discoloured. Big Sur by Jack Kerouac and Island by Aldous Huxley. I bought them in the Philippines in the early Seventies. Big Sur has comments from me on the back page. I haven’t done that since. Although Kerouac was probably the writer who got me writing (he made it look so easy), my youthful comments are harsh. “The problem w/ K is that he only describes and rarely works at evoking”.

Mar 12, 2024 | sadaa.co.uk | Romesh Gunesekera |Bhajan Hunjan |Rahila Gupta |Nima Poovaya-Smith

We had not imagined the breadth of the material and memories that would land in our inbox when we commissioned nine writers, artists, and supporters of SADAA, to reflect on their lives, their influences, their thinking, and their work, in the UK over 25 years. As well as prose, we have an original painting, poetry, and a play. Each story of arrival is different – distinct – as are the living experiences and artistic leanings and learnings.  We hope you will enjoy the pieces as much as we have.

Mar 11, 2024 | thebookerprizes.substack.com | Ismail Kadare |Romesh Gunesekera

The 2024 longlist for the International Booker Prize, the world’s most significant award for a single work of translated fiction, is announced today. With over a quarter of the nominated titles written by South American authors, and with books representing Brazil, Argentina, Peru and Venezuela, the longlist signals a second ‘boom’ in Latin American fiction.