2022 Booker Prize
British literary award given in 2022
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]
Judging panel
- Neil MacGregor (chair)
- Shahidha Bari
- Helen Castor
- M. John Harrison
- Alain Mabanckou
Nominees
indicates the winner
Shortlist
Author | Title | Genre(s) | Country | Publisher |
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Shehan Karunatilaka | The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida | Novel | Sri Lanka | Sort of Books |
NoViolet Bulawayo | Glory | Novel | Zimbabwe/USA | Vintage Publishing |
Percival Everett | The Trees | Novel | USA | Influx Press |
Alan Garner | Treacle Walker | Novel | England | HarperCollins |
Claire Keegan | Small Things Like These | Novel | Ireland | Faber & Faber |
Elizabeth Strout | Oh William! | Novel | USA | Penguin Books |
Longlist
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 |
See also
References
- ^ "The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida". thebookerprizes.com. The Booker Prizes. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
- ^ Bayley, Sian (17 October 2022). "Karunatilaka wins Booker Prize with 'audacious' The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida". The Bookseller. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
- ^ Shaffi, Sarah (17 October 2022). "Shehan Karunatilaka wins Booker prize for The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida". The Guardian.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "The Booker Prize 2022 longlist". bookshop.org. The Booker Prizes. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Shaffi, Sarah (26 July 2022). "Booker prize longlist of 13 writers aged 20 to 87 announced". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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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Recipients of the Booker Prize
- 1969: P. H. Newby (Something to Answer For)
- 1970: Bernice Rubens (The Elected Member)
- 1970 Lost Prize: J. G. Farrell (Troubles)
- 1971: V. S. Naipaul (In a Free State)
- 1972: John Berger (G.)
- 1973: J. G. Farrell (The Siege of Krishnapur)
- 1974: Nadine Gordimer (The Conservationist) and Stanley Middleton (Holiday)
- 1975: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Heat and Dust)
- 1976: David Storey (Saville)
- 1977: Paul Scott (Staying On)
- 1978: Iris Murdoch (The Sea, The Sea)
- 1979: Penelope Fitzgerald (Offshore)
- 1980: William Golding (Rites of Passage)
- 1981: Salman Rushdie (Midnight's Children)
- 1982: Thomas Keneally (Schindler's Ark)
- 1983: J. M. Coetzee (Life & Times of Michael K)
- 1984: Anita Brookner (Hotel du Lac)
- 1985: Keri Hulme (The Bone People)
- 1986: Kingsley Amis (The Old Devils)
- 1987: Penelope Lively (Moon Tiger)
- 1988: Peter Carey (Oscar and Lucinda)
- 1989: Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day)
- 1990: A. S. Byatt (Possession)
- 1991: Ben Okri (The Famished Road)
- 1992: Michael Ondaatje (The English Patient) and Barry Unsworth (Sacred Hunger)
- 1993: Roddy Doyle (Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha)
- 1994: James Kelman (How Late It Was, How Late)
- 1995: Pat Barker (The Ghost Road)
- 1996: Graham Swift (Last Orders)
- 1997: Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things)
- 1998: Ian McEwan (Amsterdam)
- 1999: J. M. Coetzee (Disgrace)
- 2000: Margaret Atwood (The Blind Assassin)
- 2001: Peter Carey (True History of the Kelly Gang)
- 2002: Yann Martel (Life of Pi)
- 2003: DBC Pierre (Vernon God Little)
- 2004: Alan Hollinghurst (The Line of Beauty)
- 2005: John Banville (The Sea)
- 2006: Kiran Desai (The Inheritance of Loss)
- 2007: Anne Enright (The Gathering)
- 2008: Aravind Adiga (The White Tiger)
- 2009: Hilary Mantel (Wolf Hall)
- 2010: Howard Jacobson (The Finkler Question)
- 2011: Julian Barnes (The Sense of an Ending)
- 2012: Hilary Mantel (Bring Up the Bodies)
- 2013: Eleanor Catton (The Luminaries)
- 2014: Richard Flanagan (The Narrow Road to the Deep North)
- 2015: Marlon James (A Brief History of Seven Killings)
- 2016: Paul Beatty (The Sellout)
- 2017: George Saunders (Lincoln in the Bardo)
- 2018: Anna Burns (Milkman)
- 2019: Margaret Atwood (The Testaments) and Bernardine Evaristo (Girl, Woman, Other)
- 2020: Douglas Stuart (Shuggie Bain)
- 2021: Damon Galgut (The Promise)
- 2022: Shehan Karunatilaka (The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida)
- 2023: Paul Lynch (Prophet Song)