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Booker Prize winner Shehan Karunatilaka on writing a good sex scene – By Benjamin Law<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Source :\u00a0theage<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Each week, Benjamin Law asks public figures to discuss the subjects we\u2019re told to keep private by getting them to roll a die. The numbers they land on are the topics they\u2019re given. This week, he talks to Shehan Karunatilaka. The Sri Lankan author, 47, won the Commonwealth Book Prize, DSC Prize and Gratiaen Prize for his 2010 debut novel,\u00a0Chinaman<\/em>. His second novel,\u00a0The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida<\/em>, won last year\u2019s Booker Prize.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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POLITICS<\/span><\/h3>\n
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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida<\/em>\u00a0is set in 1989, during the 1987-89 JVP insurrection, a period of Marxist armed revolt against the Sri Lankan government. You were almost a teenager at that time. What are your memories of the era?\u00a0<\/strong>We lived with this idea of perpetual war. As a kid, you just absorb the fact that there\u2019s war happening somewhere in your country. Bombs go off, schools close, there are curfews, checkpoints. This is the backdrop against which I grew up. I was a middle-class kid in Colombo who saw bodies on the road sometimes. This was nothing compared to my friends who lived in Jaffna [in the north] and in the war zones in the east who had harrowing experiences. The newspaper would have the cricket score on the back and the death count on the front.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Last year, a stunned world watched the anti-government protests, fuelled by the country\u2019s economic crisis, right across Sri Lanka. What was it like to be there?\u00a0<\/strong>What a year it was \u2013 definitely one for the memoirs. I wasn\u2019t quite on the ground: I was in Iowa at a writers\u2019 workshop between April and June. When I got home, Colombo was waking up to mass protests. Yes, there was water in the taps and food in the shops, but I was certainly fearful because we didn\u2019t know how it was going to turn out. The military is heavily armed; the politicians who ended up resigning were feared. You associate protests with radicals and students, but this was so widespread. To see grandmas and working-class people involved was moving. And then there was the comedy of it: people belly-flopping into the president\u2019s pool and watching the cricket on his couch. The questions aren\u2019t resolved, but Sri Lanka\u2019s like that: a volatile, wonderful, absurd, hilarious place.<\/span><\/p>\n

SEX<\/span><\/h3>\n

You\u2019re a married father of two children. Maali, the central character of\u00a0Seven Moons<\/em>, is a closeted gay man. What kind of research did you do when it came to shaping him?\u00a0<\/strong>Maali is based on a famous Sri Lankan activist called Richard de Zoysa, who was murdered in 1990. He wasn\u2019t a war photographer or gambler [like Maali]: he was more of an activist, journalist and theatre actor \u2013 and a closeted gay man. I spoke to gay men who lived in the \u201980s and the younger Grindr generation. In Sri Lanka, LGBTQ rights have a long way to go, but at least there\u2019s a lot more awareness. One text I particularly drew on was a play called\u00a0The One Who Loves You So<\/em>\u00a0by Arun Welandawe-Prematilleke. The play is about guys who hook up on Grindr \u2013 quite explicit sex scenes happen in front of you \u2013 [but] it\u2019s a very moving love story. So I kind of leaned into that.<\/span><\/p>\n

What\u2019s the secret to writing a good sex scene?\u00a0<\/strong>I tend to favour the Bollywood technique where the couple come together \u2026 then you pan away to a train going through a tunnel [laughs<\/em>]. When you try to do blow-by-blow choreography, it\u2019s like watching porn versus watching an erotic scene. It\u2019s the same with a ghost story. When you see the ghost, that\u2019s kind of the lamest part of the movie, right? Depending on the special-effects budget, most of the action should take place off-screen.<\/span><\/p>\n

RELIGION<\/span><\/h3>\n

In\u00a0Seven Moons<\/em>, Maali thinks of himself as an apolitical atheist who is racially indifferent. What about you?\u00a0<\/strong>I was brought up a Sinhalese Buddhist, so I\u2019m the majority. But \u201cSinhalese Buddhist\u201d is a political invention. There\u2019s no such thing; there\u2019s Buddhism and there\u2019s the Sinhalese language. I also went to an Anglican school. These days, I have an app that helps me to meditate and, on a good day, I do some yoga. So I suppose I can put myself in the camp of being Buddhist. But I don\u2019t do the rituals or go to temple. It\u2019s not a secret: I share a lot of Maali\u2019s beliefs, such as, \u201cHow can there be justice when we\u2019ve seen all of this stuff happen?\u201d Maybe I\u2019m not as idealistic as him: he believes there\u2019s hope and that the actions of one person can change things, whereas I\u2019m more a Generation X slacker. I\u2019m not quite Maali, but I\u2019m not a million moons away from him, either.<\/span><\/p>\n

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What do you believe happens after we die?\u00a0<\/strong>Well, I wrote a book [The Seven Moons<\/em>] about the afterlife! I read the religious texts, the philosophers, the near-death experiences, the neurologists. The fact is, no one knows. That\u2019s what we know: no one knows. And that\u2019s the thing I hold onto. My wife\u2019s Christian; my family and hers, we have our religious beliefs and our kids are exposed to those. But I also talk to them about the \u201cno one knows\u201d philosophy. What happens after we die? I\u2019d like to be surprised, but I don\u2019t think I will be.<\/span><\/p>\n

Do you have any rituals or superstitions when it comes to sitting down to write?\u00a0<\/strong>I\u2019m not sure they\u2019re rituals. I light a candle, adjust the lighting, select the music, set the mood. That\u2019s how I waste the first hour. The most important ritual is starting early: everything happens in the first two hours. After that, kids wake up, Facebook wakes up, the phone starts pinging. But having this place where no one\u2019s going to talk to you \u2026 Sometimes I scribble, sometimes I type, sometimes I make notes, sometimes I read. But I turn up, every day.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Shehan Karunatilaka will appear at the Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney writers\u2019 festivals in May.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

diceytopics@goodweekend.com.au<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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