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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.
SI Leeds Literary Prize, for unpublished fiction (more than 30,000 words) by Black and Asian women in the UK Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize , judged in three categories: fiction, poetry, and life writing; open to anyone who has not published a complete book
The Booker Prize, formerly the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a prestigious literary award conferred each year for the best single work of sustained fiction written in the English language, which was published in the United Kingdom or Ireland.
2 June – British literary figures recognised in the 2022 Birthday Honours include novelists Ian Rankin (knighthood) [11] and Salman Rushdie; the latter is made a Companion of Honour, along with illustrator Sir Quentin Blake. [12] 15 June – Opening of Shakespeare North in Prescot in northwest England, incorporating a replica early-17th ...
Marsh Biography Award – awarded biennially for the best biography written by a British author first published in the UK during the two preceding years. Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation – recognises the best translation of a children’s book from a foreign language into English and published in the UK.
The Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize, established in 2022, [1] is an annual literary award presented by British bookseller Waterstones to the best debut fiction published in the previous 12 months. The award is intended to "celebrate[] the very best fresh voices in fiction and share[] the joy and magic of discovering new authors."
The YA Book Prize is a British literary award established by publishing magazine The Bookseller in 2014. The accolade is given to young adult novels published by an author in the United Kingdom or Ireland in the previous year. As of 2022, the prize is presented at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
The British Book Awards, or Nibbies, ran from 1990 to 2009 and were founded by the editor of Publishing News. [1] The awards were then acquired by Agile Marketing, which renamed them the National Book Awards and called them the Galaxy National Book Awards (2010–2011) and later the Specsavers National Book Awards (2012–2014) after their headline sponsors. [2]