2022 Booker Prize

British literary award given in 2022

Award

2022 Booker Prize

Date| 17 October 2022
Location| Roundhouse, London
Country| United Kingdom & Ireland
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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]

## Judging panel

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* Neil MacGregor (chair)
* Shahidha Bari
* Helen Castor
* M. John Harrison
* Alain Mabanckou

## Nominees

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indicates the winner

### Shortlist

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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

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Author  | Title  | Genre(s)  | Country  | Publisher

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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

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* List of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction

## References

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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". thebookerprizes.com. 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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Recipients of the Booker Prize

* List of winners and nominated authors
* The Best of the Booker
* The Golden Man Booker
* International Booker Prize

1969–79|

* 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)

1980s|

* 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)

1990s|

* 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)

2000s|

* 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)

2010s|

* 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)

2020s|

* 2020: Douglas Stuart (Shuggie Bain)
* 2021: Damon Galgut (The Promise)
* 2022: Shehan Karunatilaka (The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida)
* 2023: Paul Lynch (Prophet Song)
* 2024: Samantha Harvey (Orbital)

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