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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]
A Russian version of the Booker Prize was created in 1992 called the Booker-Open Russia Literary Prize, also known as the Russian Booker Prize. In 2007, Man Group plc established the Man Asian Literary Prize , an annual literary award given to the best novel by an Asian writer, either written in English or translated into English, and published ...
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 ...
For 2022 the judges considered 135 books, after a record number of submissions.
National Book Award for Fiction winners, 1984 to present Year Author Title Ref 1984 Ellen Gilchrist: Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories: 1985 Don DeLillo: White Noise [22] 1986 E.L. Doctorow: World's Fair: 1987 Larry Heinemann: Paco's Story [23] 1988 Pete Dexter: Paris Trout: 1989 John Casey: Spartina: 1990 Charles Johnson: Middle Passage ...
The novel won the 2022 Kirkus Prize for Fiction. [11] The novel was longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize. [12] Trust was named one of the "10 Best Books of 2022" by The Washington Post [13] and The New York Times. [14] The New Yorker and Esquire included the novel on their lists of the best books of 2022.