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 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

Nominees

Longlist

AuthorTitleGenreCountryPublisher
NoViolet BulawayoGloryNovelZimbabwe/USAVintage Publishing
Graeme Macrae BurnetCase StudyNovelScotlandSaraband
Hernan DiazTrustNovelUSAPan Macmillan
Percival EverettThe TreesNovelUSAInflux Press
Karen Joy FowlerBoothNovelUSAProfile Books
Alan GarnerTreacle WalkerNovelEnglandHarperCollins
Claire KeeganSmall Things Like TheseNovelIrelandFaber & Faber
Shehan KarunatilakaThe Seven Moons of Maali AlmeidaNovelSri LankaSort of Books
Audrey MageeThe ColonyNovelIrelandFaber & Faber
Maddie MortimerMaps of Our Spectacular BodiesNovelEnglandPan Macmillan
Leila MottleyNightcrawlingNovelUSABloomsbury
Selby Wynn SchwartzAfter SapphoNovelUSAGalley Beggar Press
Elizabeth StroutOh William!NovelUSAPenguin Books