VA Board member

Romesh Gunesekera is the author of four highly acclaimed novels - The Match, Heaven's Edge, The Sandglass, and Reef (shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize and the Guardian Fiction Prize) - and of Monkfish Moon, a collection of short stories.

His literary awards include the BBC's inaugural Asia Award for Writing & Literature and a Yorkshire Post Book Award. His writing is widely anthologized and published in more than ten languages. Romesh has been a judge for the David Cohen Prize for British Literature, the Caine Prize for African Writing and the Amnesty Media Awards, and a guest Director at the Cheltenham Festival of Literature. He has also worked for the British Council.

Currently he is writer in residence at Somerset House and is associated with Goldsmiths College. In 2005 he received a National Honour for his writing from Sri Lanka, and the year before was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in London. He has been on the Board of the Arvon Foundation for creative writing and the Council of the RSL.

www.romeshgunesekera.com

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