From Monkfish to Noontide: Writing Through Troubled Times

Romesh Gunesekera

Joint SCoPe, YARN and Writers at York event. Internationally acclaimed writer, Romesh Gunesekera, explores the key themes of our times - political, environmental, economic - through ‘poised and potent’ stories of wide appeal. 

Romesh Gunesekera will be talking about how the fiction he writes relates to the turbulent world we live in focusing on the journey from his first book, Monkfish Moon, to his most recent book Noontide Toll. The session will include a reading and a Q&A at the end. 

Noontide Toll, his most recent book, captures a vital moment in the aftermath of the long war in Sri Lanka and was featured in The New Yorker. The Irish Times said of his path-breaking cricket-inspired novel The Match: it ‘not only shows what fiction can do, it shows why fiction is written — and read.’