New Delhi: Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunathilaka won the Booker Prize for his novel ‘The Seven Moons of Mali Almeida’ about a photographer. According to one report, during this period Karunatilaka also received an English Language Literary Award and an award of £50,000, including a trophy from the poet’s consort Camilla. Karunatilaka’s novel is about gay war photographer and gambler Mali Almeida in Sri Lanka during the country’s civil war in the 1990s. This year’s shortlist of contenders for the Booker Prize included British author Alan Garner’s Treacle Walker, Zimbabwean author Noviolet Bulawayo’s Glory, Irish author Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like This, American author Parcival Everett’s The Trige. About Karunatilka’s book, president of the judges Neil McGregor said, “It is a spiritual thriller, just a novel of different genres, interwoven with life, death, body and soul.”