The Latest Breaking News from Shehan Karunatilaka

I’m not a journalist. I wait 20 years, look back, make sure anyone who could take offence is dead and then I write.”

Prestigious literary competition wants readers to name the female-figured statuette

With Sri Lanka’s Shehan Karunatilaka and India’s Geetanjali Shree taking home two of publishing’s biggest prizes, what next for one of the world’s most overlooked literary regions?

Jenny Bhatt was born in Gujarat, India, grew up in Bombay, and has lived and worked around the globe. But for the past several years, she has made her home in the Dallas area and established an international reputation as a writer, translator, literary critic, podcaster and instructor.

The Booker-winning author on Vietnam war stories and the brutality of Jane Austen

Shehan Karunatilaka wrote his Booker Prize-winning novel “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida” to give voice to Sri Lanka’s dead

A preview of the NZ-bound writer's novel

Well, that was quick. This week Liz Truss resigned. She's left her party, and country, in a shambolic state.

Editorial: Many have an opinion on the latest winner of the UK’s top literary prize, Shehan Karunatilaka. It’s a shame not all of them have read his book