This year’s Booker Prize winner, Shehan Karunatilaka, went to school and university in New Zealand.
Sri Lanka-born Karunatilaka took home the Booker for The Seven Moons of Maali. He boarded at Whanganui Collegiate and studied for a BA in English literature and a postgrad diploma in business administration at Massey University in Palmerston North. He’s rumoured to be returning to New Zealand next year.
