Romesh gunesekera biography definition

Romesh Gunesekera was born in 1954 in Sri Lanka where he spent his early years. Before coming to Britain he also lived in the Philippines. He now lives in London.

His early stories were published in Stand Magazine, London Magazine and Granta and his poems in the LRB, Poetry Durham and other magazines.

His widely acclaimed first novel, Reef, was published in 1994 and was short-listed as a finalist for the Booker Prize, as well as for the Guardian Fiction Prize.

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In the USA he was nominated for a New Voice Award.

Before that, in 1992 his first collection of stories, Monkfish Moon, was one of the first titles in Granta’s venture into book publishing. It was shortlisted for several prizes and named a New York Times Notable Book for 1993.

In 1998, he received the inaugural BBC Asia Award for Achievement in Writing & Literature for his novel The Sandglass.

The previous year he was awarded one of the prestigious Italian literary prizes: the Premio Mondello Five Cont