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Booker Prize

Kumari Sonali

Booker Prize:

Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka has been named the winner of the 2022 Booker Prize for his second novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.

  • The Booker Prize for Fiction, formerly known as the Booker–McConnell Prize and the Man Booker Prize, is a literary prize.
  • Objective: To promote the finest in fiction by rewarding the best novel of the year written in English.
  • The Booker Prize awards any novel originally written in English and published in the UK and Ireland in the year of the prize, regardless of the nationality of their author.
  • The novel must be an original work in English (not a translation)
  • It must be published by a registered UK or Irish imprint; self-published novels are not eligible.
  • Prize Money: The winner receives £50,000 as well as the £2,500 awarded to each of the shortlisted authors.

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