Sri Lankan novelist Anuk Arudpragasam has been shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize.
Arudprgasam’s novel “A Passage North” has been included in the final shortlist of six novels that have been revealed for this year’s Booker Prize.
He has been shortlisted alongside debut novelist Patricia Lockwood with “No One Is Talking About This”, Damon Galgut with “The Promise”, and Richard Powers who makes his second shortlist appearance with “Bewilderment”.
Also making the list are Nadifa Mohamed with “The Fortune Men” and Maggie Shipstead with “Great Circle”.
The judges will reveal the winning book during a prize ceremony at the BBC Radio Theatre on the 3rd of November 2021.
‘A Passage North’ is the second novel of Anuk Arudpragasam who is an award-winning Sri Lankan novelist. His first, ‘The Story of a Brief Marriage’ won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize.
Arudpragasam studied philosophy in the United States, receiving a doctorate at Columbia University. He credits Descartes’ Meditations, which he discovered as a teenager in a bookshop near his home in Colombo, for becoming a novelist.
Anuk Arudpragasam is currently working on a new novel about mothers and daughters in the Tamil diaspora. (NewsWire)