Romesh Gunesekera
Romesh Gunesekera grew up in Sri Lanka and now lives in London. His debut novel Reef was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1994 and won the Yorkshire Post First Work Prize. In 1997 he was awarded the prestigious Premio Mondello award in Italy. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2004. He is the author of numerous novels and short story collections, including Monkfish Moon, Reef, The Sandglass and Noontide Toll, all of which are published by Granta Books.
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Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Ariel’s Song
Romesh Gunesekera
‘It is to Shakespeare’s pages I return whenever I feel I am sinking. There I can be sure to find a lifeline.’
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Mess
Romesh Gunesekera
‘You have to go on the offensive until you smell victory. Then you have the aphrodisiac and can go full tilt.’
In ConversationIn Conversation | The Online Edition
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Interview: Romesh Gunesekera
Ka Bradley & Romesh Gunesekera
Romesh Gunesekera was born in 1954 and grew up in Sri Lanka and the Philippines...
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A House in the Country
Romesh Gunesekera
‘The nights had always been noisy: frogs, drums, bottles, dogs barking at the moon’.
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Stringhoppers
Romesh Gunesekera
‘In 1956, my father was thirty-nine years old. He didn't even know how to boil an egg.’
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The Hole
Romesh Gunesekera
'I let the tears roll down to the sides of my mouth, and licked them to harden my insides. I wanted to cry gushingly, but I couldn't.'