Shiromi Pinto is author of Plastic Emotions, a novel which unearths the forgotten story of 20th century architecture icon, Minnette de Silva. ‘It’s hard not to be swept away by it all,’ wrote the Guardian in its 2019 review, while Elle UK dubbed it: ‘One of the gems of the season’. Shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award in 2020, Plastic Emotions is published by Influx Press (UK) and Penguin (India). Shiromi has written short fiction for BBC Radio 4, the Victoria & Albert Museum and opendemocracy.net. Her first novel, Trussed, was reviewed as ‘audacious’ (Bernardine Evaristo in The Independent), ‘brilliant’ (Diva) and ‘so cool that it hurts’ (The Times). After over a decade working for Amnesty International’s International Secretariat, Shiromi is now a communications consultant for social justice causes at writingeditingwords.com. She is currently working on her third novel, and is at the Galle Literary Festival thanks to support from Arts Council England. 

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• Trussed (2006)

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