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Shehan Karunatilaka answers questions about 'The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida' | The Booker Prize

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  • Опубліковано 14 сер 2024
  • Shehan Karunatilaka answers readers' questions about his novel 'The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida' shortlisted for the #BookerPrize2022
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    He talks about his writing inspiration including
    Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
    Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
    Sandman by Neil Gaiman
    Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
    Plus talks of his love of ‘Uncle’ Kurt Vonnegut and Stephen King.
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    The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.
    Previous winners include The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, Midnight Children by Salman Rushdie, The Promise by Damon Galgut, Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Bone People by Keri Hulme and many more.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 25

  • @gpeterpete870
    @gpeterpete870 Рік тому +30

    Such a great book. It's like he's the leopard from the book, who after re incarnating as a human, decided to tell Maali's story.

    • @alexborges4254
      @alexborges4254 Рік тому +4

      Was wondering who the narrator was. That makes a lot of sense!

  • @larsandersson9160
    @larsandersson9160 Рік тому +9

    A great novel - very deserving of the Booker Prize.

  • @nadiaakhtar5033
    @nadiaakhtar5033 Рік тому +5

    Gobbled up the second half in one afternoon. Such an interesting read. Having spent quite a lot of time in SL in the early 2000's, I found this book really intriguing.

  • @dilinieriyawala6957
    @dilinieriyawala6957 Рік тому +7

    Great! Congratulations Shehan!!

  • @firstofall3975
    @firstofall3975 Рік тому +9

    8:11 The reappearing leopard ghost reminds me of the spirit of Kuveni who reappears, in King Vijaya's (her former husband) dreams as well as King Panduwasdew's dreams, as a leopard in the Kohomba Kankariya ritual of the Kandyan dance tradition of Sri Lanka.

    • @gpeterpete870
      @gpeterpete870 Рік тому +1

      Thanks for adding this extra bit of information

  • @CasparLanger
    @CasparLanger Рік тому +11

    I love these little interviews. Highly enjoyable!

  • @mulderfa1
    @mulderfa1 Рік тому +4

    Great work! Congratulations Shehan. Being a Sri Lankan I am very proud of you.

  • @chinthathilakarathna4851
    @chinthathilakarathna4851 Рік тому +2

    Congratulations Mr.Shehan

  • @FrankLucas-eq1os
    @FrankLucas-eq1os Рік тому +3

    Congratulations shehan..

  • @camillabartlett9128
    @camillabartlett9128 Рік тому +2

    Congratulations 👏

  • @mariannesherry1397
    @mariannesherry1397 Рік тому

    Loved everything about this story. 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

  • @nadiaakhtar5033
    @nadiaakhtar5033 Рік тому +3

    P.S. Loved the dead leopard!

  • @Onemorebookpodcast.
    @Onemorebookpodcast. 5 місяців тому

    I liked that statement that he made, "I like all of them but I wouldn’t want to hang out with them 😂"…I share those sentiments.

  • @infinitequest0424
    @infinitequest0424 Рік тому

    Thanks for sharing

  • @shanthiliyanage511
    @shanthiliyanage511 Рік тому

    Congratulations!

  • @dinukason1
    @dinukason1 Рік тому

    Remarkable ❤️❤️

  • @anandamarkalanda1878
    @anandamarkalanda1878 Рік тому +1

    පොතේ අන්තර්ගතය පිලිබඳ සාරාංශය අගයමි .... Politics has gradually gathered and used people to make them rich and made them lazy and dependent on deals and corruption to 'represent' them.and it continues.Thanks.

  • @navodgunarathne204
    @navodgunarathne204 Рік тому +1

    👍👍

  • @anthonybailey8317
    @anthonybailey8317 Рік тому +4

    I appreciate the achievement of winning the Booker. But I find it more than coicidental that lately for many recent winners of writing awards like the Pultizer, the National Book Award and the Booker, these stories have gay protagonists. While it is long overdue that the LGBTQ community is finally getting a voice, that voice seems to be suddenly predominant in a world where the voices of many non-gay communities of different ethnicities is still not being heard. Why is that?
    It would appear that writers now understand that to become noticed for major awards, there needs to be a gay protagonist/gay sub-plot involved in the story. I hope that is not the case but I am not sure.