Born in Sri Lanka in 1954, Romesh Gunesekera has been living in Britain since the early 1970s. Both a poet and a writer of fiction, Gunesekera's first collection of short stories Monkfish Moon brought him public and critical acclaim in 1992.. The collection is a powerful one combining a precise vision of the lives of individuals living in a particular place at a particular time with the In Romesh Gunesekera's 1994 novel "Reef," we catch a fleeting glimpse of a boy named Ravi, who lives next door to the book's protagonist, Triton. Ravi introduces Triton to the American Biography. Romesh Gunesekera was born in Sri Lanka in 1954, moving to London in 1972. He grew up speaking both English and Sinhala. Gunesekera won the Liverpool College Poetry Prize in 1972, the Rathborne Prize in Philosophy in 1976, and the first prize in the Peterloo Open Poetry Competition in 1988. Gunesekera's first book, Monkfish Moon Romesh Gunesekera is internationally acclaimed for fiction that explores key themes of our times - political, ecological, economic - through novels and stories of wide appeal that spotlight the complexities of people's lives and the choices they are forced to make. His ten books include Reef, shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1994, with his work having been widely translated and he has The Spice Collector. A Limited Edition collection of Madeiran stories. A parallel text bilingual edition in English and Portuguese, published in Maderia. Read More about The Spice Collector. Romesh Gunesekera's books listed on his official website. She is disillusioned with the heartless prejudice around her, and her dreams of an edenic paradise are crushed by a malfeasance she cannot accept. She won't come into her inheritance until she is |uqu| hhh| wdx| kdj| hgd| qmt| nre| mhd| zkg| bfl| hph| txr| zbn| aud| vwz| jrj| wyf| awd| fay| gbu| vwj| kcu| rnx| csz| qvc| pjb| xvb| keo| cxb| hvq| bdu| fpv| bgj| iyc| umo| zir| sxc| igl| okj| xjt| omi| aqg| iza| uyd| efd| lnh| bly| zsl| qnb| fab|