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Guy Gunaratne

May 2024

  • Kamila Shamsie.

    Gaza vote divides Society of Authors after call to condemn Israeli military action

    Extraordinary general meeting of the UK writers’ union narrowly voted against making an official protest at violence that has killed ‘at least 95 journalists and media workers’

May 2023

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    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer Photography

    The best original photographs from the Observer commissioned in May 2023
  • Guy Gunaratne.

    Book of the day
    Mister, Mister by Guy Gunaratne review – a terror suspect’s story

    From childhood in London to radicalist notoriety to global wanderings, this fragmentary memoir of a ‘Pound Shop prophet’ is thrillingly ambitious
  • Guy Gunaratne

    Books interview
    Guy Gunaratne: ‘Writing the Abu Ghraib bit of the book took its toll’

    Booker-longlisted in 2018 for their debut novel, In Our Mad and Furious City, the Londoner talks about the follow-up, the slippery life story of a terror suspect, and the fellowship of Ali Smith during a time of stress

July 2022

  • Guy Gunaratne will join Ali Smith and Jackie Kay as judges.

    Rathbones Folio prize ‘refreshing format’ to expand to three categories

    Winners for fiction, nonfiction and poetry will each receive £2,000 and then compete for the overall £30,000 award

October 2020

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    Book of the day
    Exit Management by Naomi Booth review – how to survive in London

    This compelling tale of people scrabbling for purchase in the capital is peculiarly appropriate to our current crisis

April 2020

  • Illustration by Lehel Kovács

    Lockdown culture
    Novelists pick books to inspire, uplift, and offer escape

    From Hilary Mantel to Kazuo Ishiguro and Marlon James to Sebastian Barry, writers share their favourite literary comforts

June 2019

  • Guy Gunaratne

    Guy Gunaratne: ‘In London, you learn to code-switch ... I’ve always thought of that as a superpower’

    Examining race, class and Lee Rigby’s murder, Guy Gunaratne’s debut novel won last month’s Dylan Thomas prize. He talks about rebellion and leaving the UK

May 2019

  • OBserver New Review<br>HI-RES - USE THIS ONE Author Guy Gunaratne photographed at Headline Publishers office, london.

    Guy Gunaratne wins Dylan Thomas prize for 'urgent' London novel

    British-Sri Lankan’s debut In Our Mad and Furious City, set on a housing estate during riots sparked by the murder of a British soldier, wins £30,000 award

January 2019

  • Guy Gunaratne

    A new start
    A new start: Guy Gunaratne on how painting gives him courage to write more freely

    The award-winning novelist says immersing himself in another art form has brought clarity and creativity to his work

November 2018

  • Neasden Lane, Neasden,

    Made in ...
    Guy Gunaratne on Neasden: 'A nowhere place that was easy to loathe'

    The Islamic library next to the Chinese cafe, the Nigerian ice-cream man out by school … the author recalls how writing brought his multicultural suburb to life

September 2018

  • Writer and novelist Rachel Cusk photographed at her home in Norfolk, England.

    Books blog
    Novel senses of new: the 2018 Goldsmiths prize for fiction shortlist

    Adam Mars-Jones
    As the 2018 shortlist is announced, the chair of this year’s judges explains how they hope to reward more than simple innovation

August 2018

  • Author Guy Gunarantne:

    Books interview
    Guy Gunaratne: ‘I read writers who make me feel brave’

    The London-born novelist talks about evoking the rhythm of the city, being longlisted for the Booker prize, and why Foyles means so much to his dad

July 2018

  • Justine Jordan

    New voices, but less global: the Man Booker longlist overturns expectations

    Justine Jordan
    A graphic novel, a thriller, a novel in verse and new writers including Guy Gunaratne and Sophie Mackintosh make for an exciting list

May 2018

  • FEB-2018_LONDON: REVIEW - Diana Evans, novelist, journalist and critic. (Photograph by Graeme Robertson)

    Book clinic
    Book clinic: what are the best novels on modern black British lives?

    From Guy Gunaratne to Preti Taneja, author Kit de Waal selects some outstanding writers who reflect the richness of the ‘black experience’
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    In Our Mad and Furious City by Guy Gunaratne – review

    Three teenagers come of age on a troubled north London estate in Gunaratne’s rich, authentic debut
  • Guy Gunaratne's father

    'I thought I was a bad son’: the emotional distance between migrants and their children

    In 1951, Guy Gunaratne’s Sri Lankan father learned English by reading in a London bookshop. Almost 70 years later, the same shop sells his son’s novel. The author considers their very different journeys

April 2018

  • Guy Gunaratne

    Book of the day
    In Our Mad and Furious City by Guy Gunaratne review – grime-infused tinderbox debut

    Desire, desperation, fear and the slashed rhythms of Wiley and Skepta run through this tale of three young men in a jagged London suburb
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