Anuk Arudpragasam
Sri Lankan Tamil novelist (born 1988) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Anuk Arudpragasam (Tamil: அனுக் அருட்பிரகாசம்) (born 1988) is a Sri Lankan Tamil novelist writing in English and Tamil. His debut novel The Story of a Brief Marriage was published in 2016 by Flatiron Books/Granta Books and was subsequently translated into French, German, Czech, Mandarin, Dutch and Italian. The novel, which takes place in 2009 during the final stages of the Sri Lankan Civil War, won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, and was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize[1] and the German Internationaler Literaturpreis.[2] His second novel, A Passage North, was published in 2021 and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
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Born | 1988 (age 35–36) |
Occupation | Novelist |
Alma mater | Stanford University (B.A.) Columbia University (PhD) |
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