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As his year of publicity madness draws to a close after winning the world’s most prestigious prize for an English-language book in 2022 – the Booker – Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka comes to FRANCE 24 to talk about the novel that made him famous. “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida” is part murder mystery, part ghost story, part political satire and part gay love story. On his website he describes himself as a “Booker winner. Writer of punchlines, manifestos, and calls-to-action. Failed cricketer, failed rockstar, failed vegan. Observer of people, machines and markets”. He’s published two novels, including “Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew”, which won the 2012 Commonwealth Book Prize. He’s in Paris as his second book “The Seven Moons” is being translated into French as well as coming out in another 25 countries. He speaks to Eve Jackson.