Guy Gunaratne is a British novelist and playwright. Winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Jhalak Prize, and longlisted for the Booker, Goldsmith’s and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction.
Gunaratne served as Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge and is the current editor of The Jhalak Review.
Guy Gunaratne introduces The Review by WritersMosaic and Jhalak as an act of collective self-assertion.
11th April 2024
Guy Gunaratne: 'Silence about one’s story is also an act of being in the world.'
In conversation with Gabriel Gbadamosi
29th January 2025
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"As a writer, I can’t help but feel the UK is the only place I could have gained an embodied sense of my own hybridity."
Guy Gunaratne is a novelist and playwright.
‘I have a responsibility to make sure that anything I write does the job of working emotionally in the world.’
29th January 2025
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‘Writing a difficult scene in a play, there will be a jolt of recognition relating to more personal intimacies present in the novel I’m writing.’
29th January 2025
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‘I held my breath, half terrified at the stench. These were my father’s books – filled to the brim with tales of twisting, heightened lives, stained with the manias of some other age.’
29th January 2025
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