Event overview
Sri Lanka in fiction, Sri Lanka in focus
Novelists Romesh Gunesekera and Shiromi Pinto discuss fiction by and about Sri Lanka. Pinto’s 2019 novel Plastic Emotions (Influx Press UK/Penguin India, July 2019) recovers the life of Sri Lankan architect Minnette de Silva, whose brilliant work was in danger of being forgotten by history; dubbed “One of the gems of the season” by Elle magazine, and a “richly imagined story” by the Guardian, Plastic Emotions was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature’s 2020 Encore Award. Our own Romesh Gunesekera is the author of many acclaimed works of fiction including Reef, which was shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize; The Sandglass, winner of the inaugural BBC Asia Award, and The Match, a ground-breaking cricket novel. His latest novel, Suncatcher, returns to an earlier era and a story of divided loyalties and endangered friendship in the turbulent 1960s. The Financial Times hailed it as a ‘poignant portrait of a country … caught in the moment before it loses its innocence’. It was shortlisted for the 2020 Jhalak Prize.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 13 Jan 2021 | 5:00pm - 6:00pm |
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