Guy Gunaratne

Guy Gunaratne is a British novelist, playwright and contemporary artist. Winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize, Jhalak Prize and longlisted for the Booker and Goldsmith’s Prize.

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  • In Defence of Fossil Free Books | Essay

    Originally published in Tribune Magazine. The writer Howard Jacobson has denounced a campaign against arms manufacturers and fossil fuel companies sponsoring literary festivals, arguing that writers shouldn’t take political action. But his denunciation ignores that complicity is also a political act. Guy Gunaratne, one of the organisers in the collective Fossil Free Books behind the campaign responds…

  • In Our Mad and Furious City | Novel

    Published by Tinder Press (UK), MCD Books/FSG (US), Atlas (Sweden), Grasset (France), Fazi Editore (Italy) ‘A Début Novel Captures a City on the Boil’ – James Wood, New Yorker Inspired by the real-life murder of a British army soldier by religious fanatics, and the rampant burning of mosques that followed, Guy Gunaratne’s In Our Mad and…

  • On male refractions | Essay

    Writing on terrorism, incel culture and the performance of violent masculinity for PEN Transmissions. (Link)

  • Mister, Mister | Novel

    Published by Tinder Press (UK), Pantheon (US), Dar Tashkeel (KSA) ‘This fragmentary memoir of a ‘Pound Shop prophet’ is thrillingly ambitious’ – Sukhdev Sandhu, Guardian A blazingly propulsive novel from the prize-winning author of In Our Mad and Furious City, following a captured jihadist and poet-preacher as he recounts his path to international notoriety Who…

  • The Life and Times of Yahya Bas | Play

    Who is Yahya Bas? Revolutionary poet, notorious jihadist, misbegotten son, self-styled idiot-boy . When the enigmatic Yahya finds himself languishing in a detention center after fleeing the conflict in Syria, he has many questions to face. The stage adaptation of the novel Mister, Mister by Guy Gunaratne. Currently in workshop at Peckham Levels.