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This Booker Prize Winner is Sharing The Secrets of a Good Story

Sri Lankan Shehan Karunatilaka is the author of The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. He says he started thinking about the book a decade ago, just as Sri Lanka was emerging from a 30-year civil war. Sri Lanka is in the midst of a severe economic crisis but Karunatilaka says his story is not a commentary on the situation today.

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