Hello, would you like to introduce yourself to the audience and tell us a bit about your background? Her non-fiction and short fiction are also widely published.ġ. Nayomi’s second novel, What Lies Between Us was hailed as one of the most exciting literary releases of 2016 from venues ranging from Buzzfeed to Elle magazine. The New York Times Book review called the novel, “incandescent.” The book was the Target Book Club selection for January 2016. The Huffington Post raved, “Munaweera’s prose is visceral and indelible, devastatingly beautiful-reminiscent of the glorious writings of Louise Erdrich, Amy Tan and Alice Walker, who also find ways to truth-tell through fiction. It won the Commonwealth Regional Prize for Asia. It was short-listed for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and the Northern California Book Prize. Nayomi Munaweera’s debut novel, Island of a Thousand Mirrors was long-listed for the Man Asia Literary Prize and the Dublin IMPAC Prize.
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