# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shehan-karunatilaka
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:32:54.862Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shehan-karunatilaka"
name: "Shehan Karunatilaka"
slug: "shehan-karunatilaka"
description: "Shehan Karunatilaka is a Sri Lankan writer. He grew up in Colombo, studied in New Zealand and has lived and worked in London, Amsterdam and Singapore. His 2010 debut novel Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew won the Commonwealth Book Prize, the DSC Prize, the Gratiaen Prize and was adjudged the second greatest cricket book of all time by Wisden. His second novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida was announced as the winner of the 2022 Booker Prize on 17 October 2022."
tagline: "Sri Lankan writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shehan_Karunatilaka.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1975"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  historical:           17.81174133333334
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  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump