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Shehan Karunatilaka wins Booker prize for The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka has won the Booker prize for fiction. The judges praised the “ambition of its scope, and the hilarious audacity of its narrative techniques”.

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