2022 Booker Prize

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2022 Booker Prize
Date17 October 2022
Location Roundhouse, London
CountryUnited Kingdom & Ireland
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Shehan Karunatilaka, winner of the 2022 Booker Prize Shehan Karunatilaka.jpg
Shehan Karunatilaka, winner of the 2022 Booker Prize

The Booker Prize is a literary award given for the best English novel of the year. The 2022 award was announced on 17 October 2022, during a ceremony hosted by Sophie Duker at the Roundhouse in London. [1] [2] [3] [4] The longlist was announced on 26 July 2022. [5] The shortlist was announced on 6 September. [6] Leila Mottley, at 20, was the youngest longlisted writer to date, and Alan Garner, at 87, the oldest. [7] The majority of the 13 titles were from independent publishers. [8] The prize was awarded to Shehan Karunatilaka for his novel, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida , receiving £50,000. He is the second Sri Lankan to win the prize, after Michael Ondaatje. [9]

Contents

Judging panel

Nominees

  indicates the winner

Shortlist

AuthorTitleGenre(s)CountryPublisher
Shehan Karunatilaka The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida NovelSri Lanka Sort of Books
NoViolet Bulawayo Glory NovelZimbabwe/USA Vintage Publishing
Percival Everett The Trees NovelUSA Influx Press
Alan Garner Treacle Walker NovelEngland HarperCollins
Claire Keegan Small Things Like These NovelIreland Faber & Faber
Elizabeth Strout Oh William! NovelUSA Penguin Books

Longlist

AuthorTitleGenre(s)CountryPublisher
NoViolet Bulawayo Glory NovelZimbabwe/USA Vintage Publishing
Graeme Macrae Burnet Case Study NovelScotland Saraband
Hernan Diaz Trust NovelUSA Pan Macmillan
Percival Everett The Trees NovelUSA Influx Press
Karen Joy Fowler Booth NovelUSA Profile Books
Alan Garner Treacle Walker NovelEngland HarperCollins
Claire Keegan Small Things Like These NovelIreland Faber & Faber
Shehan Karunatilaka The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida NovelSri Lanka Sort of Books
Audrey Magee The Colony NovelIreland Faber & Faber
Maddie Mortimer Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies NovelEngland Pan Macmillan
Leila Mottley Nightcrawling NovelUSA Bloomsbury
Selby Wynn Schwartz After Sappho NovelUSA Galley Beggar Press
Elizabeth Strout Oh William! NovelUSA Penguin Books

See also

References

  1. ↑ "The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida". thebookerprizes.com. The Booker Prizes. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
  2. ↑ Bayley, Sian (17 October 2022). "Karunatilaka wins Booker Prize with 'audacious' The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida". The Bookseller. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
  3. ↑ Shaffi, Sarah (17 October 2022). "Shehan Karunatilaka wins Booker prize for The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida". The Guardian.
  4. ↑ Chilton, Martin (17 October 2022). "Booker Prize 2022 winner The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is compelling about conflict – but not a simple read". The Independent .
  5. ↑ "The Booker Prize 2022 longlist". bookshop.org. The Booker Prizes. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  6. ↑ Bari, Shahidha (6 September 2022). "'I've no idea how we'll pick a winner': the challenge of a spectacular Booker shortlist". The Guardian . Retrieved 6 September 2022.
  7. ↑ Shaffi, Sarah (26 July 2022). "Booker prize longlist of 13 writers aged 20 to 87 announced". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  8. ↑ Bayley, Sian (26 July 2022). "Booker Prize longlist dominated by indies as judges pick youngest and oldest ever nominees". The Bookseller . Retrieved 27 July 2022.
  9. ↑ Alter, Alexandra (17 October 2022). "Shehan Karunatilaka Wins Booker Prize for 'The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida'". The New York Times .
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