The film based on The Prisoner of Paradise is streaming worldwide from August 2026. The title of the film is Prisoners of Paradise.
Reef: the new edition
Reef is now available in a new cover. One of the first on the new Granta Shorts series, celebrating ‘perfectly formed’ short novels.
Galle Literary Festival 2025
One of the highlights was celebrating Reef, thirty years on and fresh out in a Sinhala translation. An event at Doornberg complete with a tree full of covers from all the editions of Reef!
Bangalore Literature Festival
I’ll be doing two events at the Bangalore ferstival. Join me if you can.
Day 1 | Sat | 14 Dec
11:30 am
Festival Lawns
The Past is a Country: Families in Fiction
Amit Chaudhuri, Kiran Desai, Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Romesh Gunesekera with Raghav Rao
Day 2 | Sun | 15 Dec
4:00 pm
The Valley
Suncatcher and Other Stories
Romesh Gunesekara with Saikat Majumdar
Galle Literary Festival 2024
Come and join me at the wonderful Galle Literary Festival. I’ll be doing events a poetry event for the first time, with Tishani Doshi, and sessions with Sebastian Faulks and Shehan Karunatilaka.
Gratiaen Workshop: Finding the Story
We had ten writers who had been on the Gratiaen prize lists come together for a one day fiction workshop in Colombo. A great day.
New Article
A piece that explores literary connections and the inspiration of a place: in this case a hillside in the south of Sri Lanka. The piece was published in The Tablet on 10 July 2021.
New Interview
A new interview during lockdown at Hi Magazine on-line.
New Piece on Oceans
Read a short new essay on our precious oceans: Triton’s Call at writersrebel.com
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Hong Kong on Sunday 8 November
Join me at the Hong Kong Lit Fest.
