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 longlist was announced on 26 July 2022. The shortlist was announced on 6 September. Leila Mottley, at 20, was the youngest longlisted writer to date, and Alan Garner, at 87, the oldest. The majority of the 13 titles were from independent publishers. 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.
Judging panel Neil MacGregor (chair) Shahidha Bari Helen Castor M. John Harrison Alain Mabanckou
Nominees
Shortlist Author Title Genre(s) Country PublisherShehan KarunatilakaThe Seven Moons of Maali AlmeidaNovelSri LankaSort of BooksNoViolet BulawayoGloryNovelZimbabwe/USAVintage PublishingPercival EverettThe TreesNovelUSAInflux PressAlan GarnerTreacle WalkerNovelEnglandHarperCollinsClaire KeeganSmall Things Like TheseNovelIrelandFaber & FaberElizabeth StroutOh William!NovelUSAPenguin Books
Longlist
Author Title Genre(s) Country Publisher NoViolet Bulawayo Glory Novel Zimbabwe/USA Vintage PublishingGraeme Macrae BurnetCase StudyNovelScotlandSarabandHernan DiazTrustNovelUSAPan Macmillan Percival Everett The Trees Novel USA Influx PressKaren Joy FowlerBoothNovelUSAProfile BooksAlan GarnerTreacle WalkerNovelEnglandHarperCollins Claire Keegan Small Things Like These Novel Ireland Faber & Faber Shehan Karunatilaka The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida Novel Sri Lanka Sort of BooksAudrey MageeThe ColonyNovelIrelandFaber & Faber Maddie Mortimer Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies Novel England Pan Macmillan Leila Mottley Nightcrawling Novel USA BloomsburySelby Wynn SchwartzAfter SapphoNovelUSAGalley Beggar Press Elizabeth Strout Oh William! Novel USA Penguin Books
See also List of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction
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