Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka has won the 2022 Booker Prize for his second novel, “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.” The novel takes place against the backdrop of Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war in the last 1980s. It is many things: a black comedy about the afterlife, a murder mystery, and a political satire. Marco Werman speaks with Sri Lankan literature professor Dinidu Karunanayake of Elon University about Shehan Karunatilaka and what his Booker win means for Sri Lanka.
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