Shehan Karunatilaka

Shehan Karunatilaka is a Sri Lankan writer most notable for his book Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew. which won the Commonwealth Prize, the DSC Prize, the Gratiaen Prize and was adjudged the second greatest cricket book of all time by Wisden. His first manuscript, The Painter, was shortlisted for the Gratiaen Prize in 2000, but was never published.