Romesh Gunesekera
Romesh Gunesekera grew up in Sri Lanka and now lives in London. His debut novel Reef was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1994 and won the Yorkshire Post First Work Prize. In 1997 he was awarded the prestigious Premio Mondello award in Italy. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2004. He is the author of numerous novels and short story collections, including Monkfish Moon, Reef, The Sandglass and Noontide Toll, all of which are published by Granta Books.
Publications
Romesh Gunesekera on Granta.com
Essays & Memoir | Issue 149
Romesh Gunesekera | On Europe
Romesh Gunesekera
‘Identity, it seemed, was not so self-determined after all.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 149
Ariel’s Song
Romesh Gunesekera
‘It is to Shakespeare’s pages I return whenever I feel I am sinking. There I can be sure to find a lifeline.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 125
Mess
Romesh Gunesekera
‘You have to go on the offensive until you smell victory. Then you have the aphrodisiac and can go full tilt.’
In Conversation | Issue 125
Romesh Gunesekera | Interview
Romesh Gunesekera & Ka Bradley
‘The past has never been as present as it is now in the world. But at the same time, all over the world, the determination to manipulate what we know has also never been stronger.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 125
Stringhoppers
Romesh Gunesekera
‘In 1956, my father was thirty-nine years old. He didn't even know how to boil an egg.’
Fiction | Issue 50
A House in the Country
Romesh Gunesekera
‘The nights had always been noisy: frogs, drums, bottles, dogs barking at the moon.’