Sri Lankan · b. 1975
Shehan Karunatilaka won the Booker Prize in 2022 for "The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida"—a novel about a dead war photographer in 1980s Sri Lanka, reviewing his life from the afterlife. Karunatilaka's earlier novel "Chinaman" won acclaim for its cricket-obsessed narrator. He brings dark humor to Sri Lanka's violent history.