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Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka won the Booker Prize on Monday for his second novel “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida,” about a dead war photographer on a mission in the afterlife.

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Britain's Queen Consort Camilla presents winner Shehan Karunatilaka with trophy for"The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida" at the Booker Prize for Fiction 2022 awards ceremony, in London, Britain, October 17, 2022 Set in 1990 Sri Lanka during the country’s civil war, Karunatilaka’s story follows gay war photographer and gambler Maali Almeida, who wakes up dead. Time is of essence for Maali, who has “seven moons” to reach out to loved ones and guide them to hidden photos he has taken depicting the brutality of his country’s conflict.

 

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