Lankan novelist Arudpragasam shortlisted for 2021 Booker ...
· Anuk Arudpragasam is an awardwinning Sri Lankan Tamil novelist, shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize for his second novel, A Passage North. In his second novel, the Sri Lankan author explores the lasting effects of the trauma and violence of his country's civil war, and a past love affair. His first, The Story of a Brief Marriage, won the DSC Prize for South .