Bursary 1991 First prize in the Peterloo Open Poetry Competition in 1988 The Rathborne Prize in Philosophy 1976 Liverpool College Poetry Prize 1972 References External links Romesh Gunesekera at the Royal Society of Literature Biography, bibliography and critical perspective of the author at contemporarywriters.com 1954 births Living people 20th-century British novelists 21st-century British novelists British male novelists English people of Sri Lankan descent Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature Sri Lanka Ranajana Sri Lankan novelists The New Yorker people 20th-century British male writers 21st-century British male writers