Shehan Karunatilaka with a grey beard and glasses standing in front of a colorful wall. Book cover for "The Seven Moons of Mali Almeida" has a colorful, grimacing dragon face.
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Readings & Talks Featuring Shehan Karunatilaka

Join us for an evening with Booker Prize winner Shehan Karunatilaka, hosted by Tope Folarin, Lannan Creative Writing Visiting Lecturer. Come at 6:30PM for food & refreshments and a live piano performance by Kristin Yung (C’25)!

Accommodation requests related to a disability should be made by September 24th to Patricia Guzman, 202-687-6294, pg654@georgetown.edu. A good faith effort will be made to fulfill requests made after September 24th.

About Shehan Karunatilaka Shehan Karunatilaka is a Sri Lankan author from Colombo. He is the author of two novels: Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew (2010), which won the Commonwealth Book Prize, the DSC Prize, and the Gratiaen Prize, and The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (Sort of Books, 2022), which won the Booker Prize. His works have been translated into 26 languages. Karunatilaka is also the author of several children’s books, dedicated and inspired by his own children.

This event is cosponsored by the Conflict Resolution Program and the South Asian Society.