Pramudith D Rupasinghe

Pramudith D Rupasinghe is a Sri Lankan novelist and humanitarian known as the “Writer Without Borders” for fiction set far beyond his native Sri Lanka. His first two works of fiction were set in Africa, one of them against the backdrop of the West African Ebola crisis, and his novel Bayan, set in Ukraine before the conflict, won the Golden Aster Prize for Global Literature in 2020. His work has been translated into many languages and draws on two decades of humanitarian work across Africa, Europe, Southeast Asia and the Middle East, looking at human psychology, cultural identity and the experiences we share across borders. He is currently writing a novel set in Bangladesh. When he isn’t writing, he runs and reads. He lives between Brussels and Colombo.