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

corals

Hong Kong on Sunday 8 November

Join me at the Hong Kong Lit Fest.

Liverpool

Don’t quote me …

Before the event.

Don’t Quote Me

Suncatcher: paperback and audiobook