Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka has been named the winner of the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction for his second book ‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida’.
Karunatilaka received a trophy from Queen Consort Camilla at a ceremony on Monday night in London.
It was the English language literary award’s first in-person ceremony since 2019, and the author also gets a 50,000 pounds prize.