Current Highlights
Novels, essays, poems, interviews . . .
Paperback
Suncatcher is available in paperback from Bloomsbury.
sinhala edition of reef
A long journey to the first Sinhala translation on the 30th anniversary of Reef. Translated by Rashmika Mandawla and published by Susara.
New edition of reef
A new edition of the French translation of Reef is now available from Editions Zoe.
Audiobook
You can listen to Suncatcher read by the author on Audible. Also available on CD from Amazon and Audible in many countries.
ANovel
Suncatcher is available from Bloomsbury.
The US edition is published by
The New Press.
A New edition
The 25th Anniversary Edition of Reef was published by Penguin India in
2019.
POEM
A poem in response to the events in Sri Lanka that began last month was printed in the Sunday Times (Colombo) on 8 May, and also published on-line at Groundviews.org.
You can listen to it here.
POEMS
Poems in the new Sri Lankan poetry anthology published by Bloodaxe
(June 2023).
THE FAMILY
Read it or listen to it at Writers Mosaic.
Baddegama
A piece about Baddegama in Sri Lanka and writing published in The Tablet (10 July 2021).
Spanish Extract
NORMAL: a new literary magazine in Spain with an extract from Suncatcher translated into Spanish.
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the contents
essay
The opening essay in Brave New Words published in the UK by Myriad Editions (November 2019).
Interview
Interview with Susheila Nasta in Trinidad published in Wasafiri 100th issue.
On europe
A short piece on Europe in Granta’s issue: Strangers in the Land
The Guardian: Further Reading
What can books do?
poems
A selection of poems in a new anthology: To Gather Your Leaving: Asian diaspora poetry from America, Australia, UK & Europe (Ethos Books, Singapore)
Travel Piece
A love letter to the wild and beautiful island of my boyhood … in The Telegraph
Romesh gunesekera
“A novel is nourished by the imagination of readers who renew it and keep it alive — and whose imaginations, in turn, are nourished and renewed by the book.”
photograph by Chris Dawes