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.

[6] Leila Mottley, at 20, was the youngest longlisted writer to date, and Alan Garner, at 87, the oldest.

[8] 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.