Romesh Gunesekera

Romesh Gunesekera
Romesh Gunesekera on Ubud Writers & Readers Festival 2012
Occupation	Novelist
Notable works	Reef, The Match

Romesh Gunesekera FRSL is a British author with a Sri Lankan background.

Life and work

Born in Colombo in 1954, Romesh Gunesekera explores aspects of his native island. He grew up in Sri Lanka and the Philippines, moving to England in 1971. His first book, Monkfish Moon, a collection of short stories reflecting the ethnic and political tensions that have threatened Sri Lanka since independence in 1948, was published in 1992. His novel Reef was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Gunesekera lives in London, but travels widely for festivals, workshops and British Council tours. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Asia House Festival of Asian Literature. He is currently one of the writers-in-residence for the charity First Story.He also has a short story related to the theme of animal poaching.

Books

• Noon Tide Toll – 2013
• ' ' The Prisoner of Paradise ' ' - 2012
• The Match – 2006
• Heaven's Edge – 2002
• The Sandglass – 1998
• Reef – 1994
• Monkfish Moon – 1992

Awards

• Sri Lanka Ranjana 2005
• BBC Asia Award 1998 for Achievement in Writing & Literature
• Winner Premio Mondello Five Continents Asia Prize 1997 (Reef)
• Winner of Yorkshire Post First Work Prize 1995 (for Reef)
• Finalist Booker Prize 1994 (Reef)
• Finalist Guardian Fiction Prize 1994 (for Reef)
• Finalist Commonwealth Writers' Regional Prize 1993 (for Monkfish Moon)
• Finalist David Higham Prize 1992 (for Monkfish Moon)
• Arts Council Writers' Bursary 1991
• First prize in the Peterloo Open Poetry Competition in 1988
• The Rathborne Prize in Philosophy 1976
• Liverpool College Poetry Prize 1972

External links

Biography, bibliography and critical perspective of the author at contemporarywriters.com