Romesh Gunesekera is internationally acclaimed for fiction that explores the key themes of our times – political, ecological, economic – through novels and stories. His fiction over the last thirty years include Reef, shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1994, and The Match, the ground-breaking cricket novel. Noontide Toll captures a vital moment in post-war Sri Lanka through linked stories, whilst Suncatcher, is a story of divided loyalties and endangered friendship in the turbulent 1960s. 

In 2023, Romesh was chair of judges for the Gratiaen Prize in Sri Lanka, and he was a judge for the International Booker Prize in 2024. He also chaired the 2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize as well as judging Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists 2013 and The Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award among others. He has taught creative writing at universities and schools and has run workshops around the world, which have featured in the top ten lists of The UK Sunday Times and The Telegraph. He is the co-author of the Writers’ & Artists’ Companion to Novel Writing.

Romesh was born in Colombo and lives in London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has received a National Honour in Sri Lanka.

Top Titles

• Reef (1994)

• Noontide Toll (2014)

• Suncatcher (2019)