His other books are Noontide Toll, a collection of linked stories, and the historical novel The Prisoner of Paradise. In 2008, a collection of his Madeira stories were published in a bilingual edition to celebrate its 500th anniversary of the founding of Funchal in Madeira. His third novel, Heaven’s Edge, a dystopian novel set in the near future was published by Bloomsbury in 2002.įour years later Bloomsbury also published The Match hailed as one of the first novels in which cricket was celebrated, and a forerunner of the many cricket-related novels that have followed. In 1995 he won the Yorkshire Post Best First Work Award in Britain. The previous year he was awarded one of the prestigious Italian literary prizes: the Premio Mondello Five Continents. In 1998, he received the inaugural BBC Asia Award for Achievement in Writing & Literature for his novel The Sandglass. It was shortlisted for several prizes and named a New York Times Notable Book for 1993. In the USA he was nominated for a New Voice Award.īefore that, in 1992 his first collection of stories, Monkfish Moon, was one of the first titles in Granta’s venture into book publishing. His first novel, Reef, was published in 1994 and was short-listed as a finalist for the Booker Prize, as well as for the Guardian Fiction Prize. In 2010 he was writer in residence at Somerset House.
Before coming to Britain he also lived in the Philippines. Romesh Gunesekera was born in Sri Lanka where he spent his early years. Through these characters and the forty years of political disintegration their country endures, Gunesekera tells the tragic, sometimes comic, story of a lost paradise and a young man coming to terms with his destiny. Salgado, an aristocratic marine biologist and student of sea movements and the disappearing reef, and his houseboy, Triton, who learns to polish silver until it shines like molten sun to mix a love cake with ten eggs, creamed butter, and fresh cadju nuts to marinade tiger prawns and to steam parrot fish.
Reef earned universal praise from European critics and landed the young author on the short list for the 1994 Booker Prize, England's highest honor for fiction. With his collection of short stories Monkfish Moon-a New York Times Notable Book of 1993-Romesh Gunesekera quickly established himself as a leading literary voice. It is also a mature, poetic novel which the British press has compared to the works of James Joyce, Graham Greene, V.S. It is a personal story that parallels the larger movement of a country from a hopeful, young democracy to troubled island society. Reef is the elegant and moving story of Triton, a talented young chef so committed to pleasing his master's palate that he is oblivious to the political unrest threatening his Sri Lankan paradise.
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