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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]
The Prize – which was chosen from 158 novels published in the UK or Ireland between 1 October 2020 and 30 September 2021 [ 5] – was awarded to Damon Galgut for his novel, The Promise, receiving £50,000. Shortlisted twice before (in 2003 and 2010), [ 5] Galgut is the third South African to win the prize, after J. M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer.
In 1993, the "Booker of Bookers" prize was awarded to Salman Rushdie for Midnight's Children (the 1981 winner) as the best novel to win the award in its first 25 years. Midnight's Children also won a public vote in 2008, on the prize's fortieth anniversary, for "The Best of the Booker". In 2018 a special "Golden Booker" was awarded celebrating ...
Pulitzer-winner Richard Powers, a finalist in both 2018 and 2021, is on the longlist with “Playground,” a story of money, power and climate change set on a Polynesian island.
July 26, 2022 at 1:08 PM. 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 ...
Zimbabwean author NoViolet Bulawayo, who was born Elizabeth Zandile Tshele, makes the shortlist for the second time, having previously been shortlisted for her debut book, We Need New Names, in 2013.
The prize money awarded with the Booker Prize was originally £5,000. [14] It doubled in 1978 to £10,000 and was subsequently raised to £50,000 in 2002 under the sponsorship of the Man Group, making it one of the world's richest literary prizes. Each of the shortlisted authors receives £2,500 and a specially bound edition of their book. [14]
The top 32 on this ranking list comprise the qualifiers for the European Championship, all seeded, at the end of the year. [4] Players Championship Order of Merit, which counts money earned in Player Championship events during the calendar year. The top 64 on this ranking list are the seeded qualifiers to the Players Championship Finals. [5]