After graduating from Stanford, he lived in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu for a year. He moved to the United States at the age of 18 to attend Stanford University, graduating with a B.A. Arudpragasam did not follow their advice until the age of 15 or 16, when he found a taste for philosophical literature in the nearby Vijitha Yapa bookstore. Although he did not come from a literary family, his parents encouraged him to read books from a young age. However, he himself never came into direct contact with the civil war that raged in the northeast from 1983 to 2009. His Tamil family originally came from the northeast of the country. He grew up in a wealthy family in Colombo. His second novel, A Passage North, was published in 2021 and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.Īrudpragasam was born in 1988 in Colombo, Sri Lanka, to Tamil parents. The novel, which takes place in 2009 during the final stages of the Sri Lankan Civil War, won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, and was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the German Internationaler Literaturpreis. His debut novel The Story of a Brief Marriage was published in 2016 by Flatiron Books/ Granta Books and was subsequently translated into French, German, Czech, Mandarin, Dutch and Italian. Anuk Arudpragasam ( Tamil: அனுக் அருட்பிரகாசம்) (born 1988) is a Sri Lankan Tamil novelist writing in English and Tamil.
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