Anuk Arudpragasam was born in 1988 to a Tamil family in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He graduated with a doctorate in philosophy from Columbia University in New York. He published his debut novel »The Story of a Brief Marriage« in 2016. The novel is set in an unspecified refugee camp over
Shehan Karunatilaka was born in 1975 in Galle in southern Sri Lanka. He studied English literature, as well as business administration at New Zealand Massey University. He then worked as a copywriter and creative director in London, Colombo and Singapore. He has also worked as a songwriter and musician (in
born in 1984 in Sri Lanka, studied philosophy, Protestant theology and cultural studies in Marburg, Berlin and London. His debut novel »Von der Zunahme der Zeichen« (tr. The accretion of signs), published in spring 2016, is a fictitious facebook conversation between two students, who were not born in Germany. Varatharajah
