Booker Prize 2022: Shehan Karunatilaka wins with supernatural satire - BBC News

Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka has scooped the Booker Prize 2022.
He won the coveted prize with a supernatural satire set amid a Sri Lankan civil war.
His novel, called The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, tells the story of a photographer who wakes up dead, with a week to ask his friends to find his photos and expose the brutality of war.
Camilla, the Queen Consort, presented the prize to Mr Karunatilaka, who described the win as “fabulous”.
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[@prolix6x]

Sri Lankan names have such style and flair! Shehan Karunatilaka! Mahela Jayawardene. Lasith Malinga. So different from the awful boring and depressing Brahminical names of Bharat. But yes, Salman Rushdie was a literary giant. And his name sounds good too!

[@abhinay4200]

Racist spotted

[@premprasun1516]

Wtf is a brahminacal name ? India names are majorly derived from either Sanskrit or other regional languages

[@Syiepherze]

@@premprasun1516 Many Sinhalese names are Sanskrit derived too. I guess they just have a rhythm to them lol

[@D__Ujjwal]

Yup they give me vibes of ancient ancient kings names . They were long names with good meaning. Srilankan names are also derived from Sanskrit, it's just that we started using short names with meaning(of course)

[@GaMiNGSL515]

Sri Lankan 🇱🇰😍

[@khamskasomwoshi2809]

I was jus gonna have a drink & go home tonight. And thi.. this is fabulous 😍

[@vasanthaskanda5]

congratulations sir.we are very proud of your work. writers like you do the great service. your story will help humanity and how the war is destroying individuals and the countries. much needed story .

[@amedsheeran4471]

🇱🇰🇱🇰🇱🇰🇱🇰🇱🇰🇱🇰

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Sri Lanka...❤💪🏻😘🥰

[@blackcarnage9619]

*CONGRATS SIR* ❤

[@m.heenatigala3455]

Congratulations

[@soulonsoul8035]

Have to read that! 📚 👀

[@jeewankoswaththa7788]

He is sir lankan ...proud අයියා ❤️👊

[@mmnmaths6206]

Selling war and selling black fake things to the world is the good way to win a prize.we have no anger with him.we know that he is being prized by Money.But he has written in this book is fake and trying to abuse sri lanka.The country is trying to rise again but he is selling fake black war incident to survive his economy.what a nice person who is not live in sri lanka.

[@yoyogirl001]

සුබ පැතුම් ❤️🤗

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सत्यमेव जयते 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@chadaihstsu]

Greetings.

[@quintusfernando7396]

Sri Lanka is still good with regard to her English education .** Congratulations ; Shehan !! Teach every child in our country; English. ; as in Singapore *** Sinhala only policy has failed. & devided the Country 🔥*** Our people are at a disadvantage due to this suicidal step of Bandaranayaka ** With Love from Sri Lanka 🇱🇰***

[@Nethu_Hettihewa]

❤🇱🇰

[@auro1986]

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[@adamgrimsley2900]

I found it rather self indulgent, fine prose but a bit lacking

[@curreisland5115]

Isn't the book story regurgitating ondaatje s book Anils ghost?

[@ruvindrasathsarani6064]

Have u read Anil's ghost? No this doesn't have any similarity with that.

[@229_sing]

1922/10/18"英國廣播有限公司"於倫敦成立，為今英國廣播公司，BBC前身。 祝福：生日快樂，收視長紅。 PS:世界的和平與發展的局勢，任重道遠。

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[@EdwardLawrence-12345]

🇧🇷 BRAZIL Bolsonaro has gained seats in Congress amid a broader rightward shift that will keep him influential even if Lula wins- *Raphael Tsavkko Garcia*

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Hahahaha 😹🤡

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[@amkushala]

Basted robbed rajpal script you disgraceful

[@wolfenstein722]

English news please, no foreigners.....

[@Syiepherze]

The Booker Prize is literally English.

[@EdwardLawrence-12345]

🇷🇺 RUSSIA/UKRAINE 🇺🇦. 🇺🇳 Guterres also said he is _"very concerned with escalation in the Russia-Ukraine war, especially when escalation causes a large number of civilian victims, obviously it only worsens what is already a very difficult situation."_ 🇷🇺 Russian President Putin ordered a "special military operation" against Ukraine on February 24. The raging conflict has further heightened economic stresses, especially on food and energy. _"I think that what"_ 🇮🇳 Prime Minister Modi "said to Russian President Putin that this is not the time for war is absolutely true. No time is the time for war. But this time in particular is

[@sailormoon296]

Sri Lankan names have such style and flair! Shehan Karunatilaka! Mahela Jayawardene. Lasith Malinga. So different from the awful boring and depressing Brahminical names of Bharat. But yes, Salman Rushdie was a literary giant. And his name sounds good too!