2022 Booker Prize

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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]

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2022 Booker Prize
Date17 October 2022
LocationRoundhouse, London
CountryUnited Kingdom & Ireland
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Shehan Karunatilaka, winner of the 2022 Booker Prize

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