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Gunesekera, Romesh

Romesh Gunesekera was born in Sri Lanka and lived in the Philippines before coming to Britain. He is internationally acclaimed for his novels and short stories including the Booker-shortlisted Reef and The Match, a forerunner of modern cricket novels. Noontide Toll, his most recent book, captures a vital moment in the aftermath of civil war in Sri Lanka and was featured in The New Yorker.

He is also the co-author of The Writers’ & Artists’ Companion to Novel Writing.

www.romeshgunesekera.com

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Cooking for Love

Katharine Davies on Romesh Gunesekera, Reef

Each time I read Reef – the story of a boy, Triton, growing up as a servant and cook in Sri Lanka in the late 1960s – I find something new. I think the way that The Tempest flits in and out of the novel is one of the things that keeps me rereading it. Another is the play of light and shadow in Romesh Gunesekera’s prose. I lived in Colombo from 1992 to 1994, teaching English, and my first home was on Havelock Road where, only the year before, a bomb had exploded, throwing severed heads and body parts into the air. This, by Sri Lankan standards, was nothing. Like many others, I was struck by the incongruity of such horror in a country so deceptively gentle, one that looked so much like the Garden of Eden. In Reef Gunesekera seduces you with a charming depiction of a lost era, but underlying it all is the knowledge of the killing that came later.
20180301154048 José Rizal - Romesh Gunesekera on Noli Me Tangere

Dying for a Dream

Romesh Gunesekera on José Rizal, Noli Me Tangere

Many writers have places, real or imagined, linked with their names – Joyce’s Dublin, Hardy’s Wessex, Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha – but I don’t know of any who have a province named after them, other than José Rizal, the Filipino author of Noli Me Tangere. The province of Rizal was created in 1901 (two years after the country was ceded to America by Spain), to honour the best-known martyr of Philippine nationalism.

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