Romesh Gunesekera's Blog

BBC Radio 4 Extra have just finished broadcasting a seven episode abridged version of Reef originally recorded in 1994. It is available to hear online for the next month at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000...

Visit Palazzo Bembo in Rialto, Venice and see a new installation of images, word and music: Kintsugi on until 24 November 2019. A collaboration involving Anoma, Romesh and Sharon.

Reef as abridged for Radio 4 Book at Bedtime in 1994 is being broadcast again on Radio 4 Extra over seven days. You can also hear all the episodes on-line. BBC.

Check out Rethinking Civil Society for thoughts about what makes for a good society. A project at the University of York where I gave a talk last week. You cans scroll through dozens of contributions from Andrew Motion to Ken Loach.

The World Cup begins today, so how nice to see The Match recommended in The Times.

Reef was published in 1994. In January, this year, at the Fairway Galle Literary Festival we celebrated the book’s 25th anniversary with readings and a literary dinner organised by Widya Kumarasinghe at the Amangalla with chef Sagar Rajput. Here’s a glimpse including photographs from the FGLF Facebook page.

The Fairway Galle Literary Festival starts on Wednesday 16th January. I’ll be doing four events on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. See the What’s On page for details. Hope to see some of you there!

A workshop on revising and editing with my co-tutor Antonia Hodgson (author of The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins and editor at Little Brown) and guest James Runcie (whose Grantchester Mysteries were turned into a much loved TV series).  Book early!

24-29 September 2018 at the Ted Hughes Arvon Centre. 

Now available on-line and BBC iPlayer: what I've been working on.

In the Studio

My piece on Jose Rizal's classic novel Noli Me Tangere is published in the new spring issue of Slightly Foxed. You can order the magazine from slightlyfoxed.com

For a taster, here are the first couple of pages.

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