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Download Solution PDFWho among the following recently received the 2022 Booker Prize for his novel, The Seven Moons of Maali almeida?
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Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is Shehan Karunatilaka
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Shehan Karunatilaka
- Shehan Karunatilaka received the 2022 Booker Prize for his novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.
- The award was presented to the Sri Lankan novelist by Queen Consort Camilla at the Roundhouse in London on Monday night at the awards event for his work, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.
- The novel is based on the murder of a war photographer in Colombo in the 1990s and examines life after death in a civil war-torn Sri Lanka.
- Karunatilaka becomes only the second Sri Lankan-born novelist to get the honor.
- Karunatilaka was born in Galle, but he spent his childhood in Colombo. He studied in New Zealand and worked in Amsterdam, London, and Singapore before relocating to Sri Lanka.
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