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Jul 26, 2022 · The longlist for the Booker Prize 2022 – the leading literary award in the English speaking world – is announced today, Tuesday 26 July 2022. The 13 books on this year’s longlist – the ‘Booker dozen’ – were chosen by the 2022 judging panel: cultural historian, writer and broadcaster Neil MacGregor (chair); academic and broadcaster ...
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Why you should read the Booker Prize 2022 shortlist, according to our judges. We asked the Booker Prize 2022 judges to explain what impressed and delighted them most about each book on the shortlist – and why they are relevant to today’s world.
- Experience counts. Between them, the authors have published a combined total of over 75 works, including short stories, children’s stories and poetry.
- Based on true events. Real-life events have served as inspiration for the majority of authors. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida draws on the darkest days of the Sri Lankan civil war, whereas Glory is a satirical take on the fall of Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe.
- Short books and multiple drafts. Despite being, at 116 pages, the shortest book ever to be shortlisted, Keegan’s Small Things Like These went through around 50 drafts to get it to its final, published state.
- A fabulous list. 2022 is a strong year for fables. Bulawayo’s satirical tale of an uprising features a vivid chorus of animals. Garner weaves myth, folklore and fable into his depiction of a young boy trying to make sense of the world around him, Everett’s The Trees was described by the New Yorker as ‘a grisly fable about whose murder counts in the public imagination’, while Karunatilaka’s novel was described by the Booker judges as an ‘existential fable teeming with the bolshiest of spirits’.
Sep 6, 2022 · The long and shortlists were selected from 169 novels published between Oct. 1, 2021, and Sept. 30, 2022, and submitted by publishers. The Booker Prize is open to works by writers of any...
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Oct 17, 2022 · The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka, a supernatural satire set amid a murderous Sri Lankan civil war, has won the Booker Prize.
Oct 17, 2022 · “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida” by Shehan Karunatilaka won the 2022 Booker Prize on Monday at the Roundhouse in London. Camilla, the newly appointed Queen Consort of Britain, handed the...
Oct 17, 2022 · The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka, a supernatural satire set amid a murderous Sri Lankan civil war, has won the Booker Prize. The Sri Lankan writer's novel is about a ...
