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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.
The following is a list of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction. The prize has been awarded each year since 1969 to the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations or the Republic of Ireland. In 2014, it was opened for the first time to any work ...
The novel is set in Sri Lanka in the 1980s, and written in the second person.The central character, Maali Almeida, is a dead photographer who sets out to solve the mystery of his own death and is given one week ("seven moons") during which he can travel between the afterlife and the real world. [12]
Shehan Karunatilaka saw his native Sri Lanka erupt this May; then he saw his sweeping novel, 'The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida,' win the Booker Prize. How 2022's Booker Prize winner managed a ...
'The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida' author Shehan Karunatilaka is the second Sri Lankan-born writer to win the Booker Prize, after Michael Ondaatje.
Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka won the prize just over two months after Sir Salman was stabbed in New York. Booker Prize winner: Attack on Salman Rushdie caused me to self-censor Skip to ...
Historically, the winner of the Booker Prize had been required to be a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, the Republic of Ireland, or Zimbabwe. It was announced on 18 September 2013 that future Booker Prize awards would consider authors from anywhere in the world, so long as their work was in English and published in the UK. [39]
The Booker Prize 2022 longlist features the oldest and youngest authors ever to be nominated for the prestigious literary award. British author Alan Garner, who will celebrate his 88th birthday on ...