{"id":12186,"date":"2022-11-04T11:46:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T11:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=12186"},"modified":"2022-11-04T11:46:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T11:46:56","slug":"shehan-karunatilaka-slams-insulting-claims-by-rajpal-over-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/shehan-karunatilaka-slams-insulting-claims-by-rajpal-over-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Shehan Karunatilaka slams \u201cinsulting\u201d claims by Rajpal over book"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Author Shehan Karunatilaka has slammed what he terms as \u201cbaseless and insulting\u201d claims made by journalist Rajpal Abeynayake over his Booker Prize winning novel \u2018The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka, a supernatural satire set amid a murderous Sri Lankan civil war, <a href=\"https:\/\/colombogazette.com\/2022\/10\/18\/sri-lankan-author-shehan-karunatilaka-wins-the-booker-prize-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">won the Booker Prize<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;Sri Lankan writer\u2019s novel&nbsp;is about a photographer who wakes up dead, with a week to ask his friends to find his photos and expose the brutality of war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Abeynayake, a former Editor, had claimed that the novel \u2018The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida\u2019 was stolen from a manuscript he had emailed Karunatilaka in 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Abeynayake had claimed that the manuscript was emailed to Karunatilaka in 2011 seeking the author\u2019s endorsement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, Karunatilaka said that the claims of plagiarism is entirely unfounded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Karunatilaka said that he has shared the manuscript with his publishers who confirmed there is no comparison whatsoever with his book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere are no shared plots, characters nor text,\u201d Karunatilaka said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Karunatilaka said that he has also shared the information with the Booker Prize Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author Shehan Karunatilaka has slammed what he terms as \u201cbaseless and insulting\u201d claims made&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12188,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12186\/revisions\/12188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}