Romesh Gunesekera

b. 1954

Romesh Gunesekera was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2004.

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Articles by Romesh Gunesekera

On the Same Page: Anne Fine and Romesh Gunesekera

A BBC Arts and Ideas podcast, part of Norfolk and Norwich Festival 2020

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Leonard Woolf: the whole man

Victoria Glendinning on her biography of Leonard Woolf

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The Sri Lankan Novel

A discussion about the long shadow that war has cast over Sri Lankan literature, the challenges of writing fiction in the context of a troubled political climate, and the connection between writers living in Sri Lanka, and those of the diaspora.

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Lost and found in London: Romesh Gunesekera on the lure of the capital

Romesh Gunesekera considers the lure of the capital for an author

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