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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is set in 1989 – a significant year in Sri Lanka’s recent history. For those who aren’t very familiar with Sri Lanka’s civil war, could you give our readers a sense of what was happening at that time and why you chose that specific year as the backdrop for Maali’s… Read More »A Conversation with the 2022 Booker Prize Winner, Shehan Karunatilaka

The Spanish writer on how Papyrus, her bestselling history of literature in the ancient world, changed her life at a difficult moment, and why it’s a mistake to undervalue books Born in 1979, Irene Vallejo is a Spanish writer, historian and philologist, and a regular columnist in the newspaper El País. She had written several books,… Read More »Philologist IRENE VALLEJO: ‘Alexander the Great’s library was the first step towards the internet’