Romesh Gunesekera is internationally acclaimed for fiction that explores the key themes of our times — political, ecological, economic — through novels and stories of wide appeal. His fiction over the last forty years includes Reef, shortlisted for the Booker prize in 1994, and The Match, the ground-breaking cricket novel. 

Noontide Toll, a cycle of linked stories that captured a vital moment in post-war Sri Lanka, was published in 2014. His most recent novel, Suncatcher, returns to an earlier era in Sri Lanka and a story of divided loyalties and endangered friendship in the turbulent 1960s. 

His novels and stories have been translated into a dozen languages and are studied in university courses and in schools. Reef has been translated into Sinhala and The Match and Suncatcher will also be available in Sinhala soon. Romesh is also the co-author of the Writers’ & Artists’ Companion to Novel Writing. His poems have been anthologised widely and can be found in a collaborative art installation in Colombo. 

Apart from writing, Romesh has chaired the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and judged the International Booker Prize (2024), Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists (2013), the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award, the Caine Prize, the Forward Prize, the Gratiaen Prize and many others. In 2025, he chaired the Wasafiri New Writing Prize.

His creative writing workshops have inspired new writers in many countries around the world. 

Romesh was born in Sri Lanka and lives in London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. 

Top Titles

• Reef (1994)
• The Match (2006)
• Noontide Toll (2014)
• Novel Writing: A Writers’ and Artists’ Companion (2015). Co-edited with A.L. Kennedy.
• Suncatcher (2019)