Anuk Arudpragasam is a Sri Lankan Tamil novelist born in Colombo in 1988. He writes in both English and Tamil, bringing perspectives from his cultural background to his literary work. His debut novel, The Story of a Brief Marriage, was published in 2016 by Flatiron Books and Granta Books. Set in 2009 during the final stages of the Sri Lankan Civil War, the novel explores intimate human experiences against the backdrop of conflict. It won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and was shortlisted for both the Dylan Thomas Prize and the German Internationaler Literaturpreis. The novel was translated into French, German, Czech, Mandarin, Dutch, and Italian, reaching international audiences. Arudpragasam's second novel, A Passage North, was published in 2021 and achieved significant recognition by being shortlisted for the Booker Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in English-language fiction.