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Romesh Gunesekera
Recipients of the Mondello Prize
- Denise McSmith (1975)
- Stefano D'Arrigo (1977)
- Yury Trifonov (1978)
- Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (1979)
- Pietro Consagra (1980)
- Ignazio Buttitta, Angelo Maria e Ela Ripellino (1983)
- Leonardo Sciascia (1985)
- Wang Meng (1987)
- Mikhail Gorbachev (1988)
- Peter Carey, José Donoso, Northrop Frye, Jorge Semprún, Wole Soyinka, Lu Tongliu (1990)
- Fernanda Pivano (1992)
- Associazione Scrittori Cinesi (1993)
- Dong Baoucum, Fan Boaci, Wang Huanbao, Shi Peide, Chen Yuanbin (1995)
- Xu Huainzhong, Xiao Xue, Yu Yougqnan, Qin Weinjung (1996)
- Khushwant Singh (1997)
- Javier Marías (1998)
- Francesco Burdin (2001)
- Luciano Erba (2002)
- Isabella Quarantotti De Filippo (2003)
- Marina Rullo (2006)
- Andrea Ceccherini (2007)
- Enrique Vila-Matas (2009)
- Francesco Forgione (2010)
- Valerio Magrelli (1980)
- Ferruccio Benzoni, Stefano Simoncelli, Walter Valeri, Laura Mancinelli
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Romesh Gunesekera was born in 1954 in Sri Lanka before moving to the Philippines at age seven. Gunesekera moved to England in 1972 and studied English and philosophy at the University of Liverpool. There, he earned several accolades for his writing, including the Liverpool College Poetry Prize. Prior to the release of his short stories in an anthology titled Monkfish Moon in 1992, Gunesekera's work was published in magazines such Granta, The London Review of Books, and London Magazine.
After Monkfish Moon was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Gunesekera won an Arts Council Bursary, a grant that allowed him to focus on writing his debut novel, Reef, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Since Reef's publication, Gunesekera has released several novels, such as The Sandglass (1998), Heaven's Edge (2002), The Match (2006), The Prisoner of Paradise (2012), Noon Tide Toll (2013), and Suncatcher (2019).
Gunesekera has won numerous awards, including a National Honour
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Biography
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. 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 Continents. In 1995 he won the Yorkshire Post Best First Work Award in Britain.
His third novel, Heave
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