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Romesh Gunesekera
Author
Born:
1954
Live
Me
Time
World
Writing
You
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In London, I discovered a peculiar building by Holland Park where the globe was shrunk to fit a British perspective, but which had a library with Sri Lankan books I had never seen before.
Romesh Gunesekera
Library
Perspective
Seen
Building
Before
Books
London
Park
Never
Had
Globe
Discovered
Fit
Where
Which
Holland
Shrunk
British
Peculiar
An aircraft cabin is a place that seems to be nowhere, but I find it steeped in the place left behind and the place ahead.
Romesh Gunesekera
Aircraft
Find
Seems
Cabin
Left
Behind
Place
Nowhere
Two of the first plays I saw after I arrived in Britain were 'King Lear' in Liverpool, and 'Antony and Cleopatra' at Stratford. One was produced with hardly a backdrop and the other with gigantic scene changes. I was impressed by what connected the two: the words and their life beyond the stage.
Romesh Gunesekera
Life
Words
King
First
Stage
Other
Changes
Saw
Backdrop
Gigantic
King Lear
Scene
Cleopatra
Beyond
Lear
Arrived
Were
Impressed
After
Produced
Connected
Stratford
Liverpool
Hardly
Britain
Two
Plays
Sure, cricket on a beach on the isle of Jura is different from a Test match in a stadium in Galle, 6000 miles away, despite the sea air.
Romesh Gunesekera
Cricket
Despite
Air
Beach
Sure
Match
Isle
Test
Stadium
Different
Miles
Sea
Away
Cricket fans all over the world probably have more in common with each other than with their fellow citizens.
Romesh Gunesekera
World
Fans
Other
Cricket
Citizens
More
Over
Fellow
Fellow Citizens
Than
Common
Each
The most appealing side-effect of Sri Lankan cricket from where I stand, shuffling words, has been linguistic.
Romesh Gunesekera
Words
Cricket
Has-Been
Most
Been
Linguistic
Where
Stand
Appealing
Shuffling
Imaginative writing, to me, is a way of discovering who we are and what we have to contend with; discovering what is out there and also what is not there. It enables me to think and explore and make something new with language while trying to make sense of our lives.
Romesh Gunesekera
Me
Writing
Language
Sense
Think
Our
Way
Our Lives
Out
Something
Something New
New
Also
Make
Contend
Enables
Discovering
Trying
While
Explore
Who
Lives
Imaginative
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