Before choosing a winner, the jury of one of the most prestigious literary awards read 170 novels, five authors made it to the final part.
On Monday, October 17, the Booker Prize for Fiction Writer Shehan Karunathilaka of Sri Lanka for her satirical novel The Seven Months of Maali Almeida, set during a brutal civil war.
Reported by the Associated Press.
47- the summer winner was previously known for its nonfiction, children's books, screenplays, and rock songs. Maali Almeida's Seven Months is his second novel. It is written in the genre of black humor and tells the story of a murdered war photographer.
On this occasion, Karunatilaka noted that the people of Sri Lanka, torn apart by a brutal civil war, “specialize in gallows humor and joke in the face of crisis.”
“This is our coping mechanism,” he said, and expressed his hope that his novel about war and ethnic division in his country would one day be “in the fantasy section of a bookstore.”
Choosing winner, the jury of one of the most prestigious literary awards read 170 novels, five authors made it to the final part.
Former director of the British Museum Neil MacGregor, who chaired the jury, said that the judges chose the book for “ambition, scope and skill , courage, audacity and gaiety of execution.”
Karunatilak received an award of 50,000 pounds ($57,000). The award ceremony was held at London's Roundhouse. The writer received the award from the hands of the British Queen Camilla.
Recall that earlier the Pulitzer Prize announced a special award for Ukrainian journalists: “For courage, endurance and devotion to the truth.”
