| 词条 | Romesh Gunesekera | ||||||||
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| name = Romesh Gunesekera | image = Romesh Gunesekera - The Exoticism of Others (cropped).jpg | alt = Writer Romesh Gunesekera reading from his book The Prisoner of Paradise | caption = Romesh Gunesekera at the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival 2012 | birth_date = {{birth year|1954}} | birth_place = Colombo, Sri Lanka | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Novelist | nationality = Sri Lankan born British | period = | genre = | notableworks = Reef; The Match | awards = Fellow of Royal Society of Literature UK, Sri Lanka Ranjana National Honour | signature = }}Romesh Gunesekera FRSL (born 1954) is a Sri Lankan-born British author,[1] who was a finalist in the Man Booker Prize for his novel Reef in 1994.[2] He is currently the Chair of the Judges of Commonwealth Short Story Prize competition for 2015.[3] Life and workBorn in Colombo to a Sinhalese Christian family in 1954, Romesh Gunesekera grew up in Sri Lanka and the Philippines, where his father was a founder of the Asian Development Bank, and moved to England in 1971 and currently lives in London. 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, and was shortlisted for several prizes.[4] His 1994 novel Reef was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Gunesekera 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.[5] He is currently one of the writers-in-residence for the charity First Story.[6] He also has a short story related to the theme of animal poaching. He was a judge for a number of literary prizes, such as the Caine Prize for African Writing,[7] the David Cohen Prize for Literature, the Forward Prize for Poetry[8] and most recently the Granta 2013 list of the Best of Young British Novelists.[9] He chaired the board of judges of the 2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize competition. He has been a Guest Director at the Cheltenham Festival, an Associate Tutor at Goldsmiths College and on the Board of the Arvon Foundation. For four years, until 2013, he was on the Council of the Royal Society of Literature. He is married with two daughters.[10] Bibliography{{Expand list|date=July 2017}}Books
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References1. ^About Romesh Gunasekera 2. ^"Romesh Gunesekera", The Man Booker Prize 3. ^ 4. ^Biography at Romesh Gunesekera website. 5. ^The website devoted to Contemporary writers 6. ^First Story 7. ^"Judges 2005", The Caine Prize. 8. ^"Forward Judges", Forward Arts Foundation. 9. ^"Granta and British Council Announce ‘Best of Young British Novelists’ Partnership", Granta. 10. ^Bunbury, Stephanie (2 September 2006). "Finding meaning in a long gone past", The Age, Insight, p. 10. External links{{Commons category}}
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