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2022 Booker Prize
The 2022 Booker Prize was a literary award given for the best English novel of the year. It 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 Longlist See also *List of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction 4 The following is a list of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction. The prize has been awarded each year sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shehan Karunatilaka
Shehan Karunatilaka (born 1975) is a Sri Lankan writer. He grew up in Colombo, studied in New Zealand and has lived and worked in London, Amsterdam and Singapore. His 2010 debut novel '' Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew'' won the Commonwealth Book Prize, the DSC Prize, the Gratiaen Prize and was adjudged the second greatest cricket book of all time by ''Wisden''. His third novel '' The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida'' (Sort of Books, 2022) was announced as the winner of the 2022 Booker Prize on 17 October 2022. Biography Shehan Karunatilaka was born in 1975 in Galle, southern Sri Lanka, and grew up in Colombo. He was educated at S. Thomas' Preparatory School, Kollupitiya, Sri Lanka, and then in New Zealand at Whanganui Collegiate School, and Massey University. He graduated in English literature, against his family's wish that he study business administration. Before publishing his debut novel in 2010, he worked in advertising at McCann, Iris and BBDO, and has also written fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NoViolet Bulawayo
NoViolet Bulawayo is the pen name of Elizabeth Zandile Tshele (born 12 October 1981), a Zimbabwean author. In 2012, the National Book Foundation named her a "5 under 35" honoree. She was named one of the Top 100 most influential Africans by ''New African'' magazine in 2014. Her debut novel, ''We Need New Names'', was shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize, 2013 Booker Prize, and her second novel, ''Glory (Bulawayo novel), Glory'', was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize, making her "the first Black African woman to appear on the Booker list twice". Life Bulawayo was born in Tsholotsho Zimbabwe, and attended Njube High School and later Mzilikazi High School for her A-levels. She completed her college education in the United States, studying at Kalamazoo Valley Community College, and earning bachelor's and master's degrees in English from Texas A&M University-Commerce and Southern Methodist University, respectively. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Audrey Magee
Audrey Magee is an Irish novelist and journalist. Her debut novel, ''The Undertaking'', was nominated for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction in 2014. Her novel '' The Colony'' was longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize. Biography Born in Ireland, Magee studied German and French at University College Dublin and journalism at Dublin City University. For 12 years, she worked as a journalist, writing for publications such as ''The Times'', ''The Irish Times'', ''The Observer'', and ''The Guardian''. In 2014, Magee published ''The Undertaking'', her debut novel. It was published by Atlantic Books. The novel is set in World War II-era Germany and "tells the story of Peter Faber, a German soldier fighting on the Eastern front, who marries Katharina Spinell, a woman he has never met, in order to escape the horrors of the battlefield for a few days." She wrote ''The Undertaking'' with the goal of trying to understand "what it was like to have been an ordinary German during the Second ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penguin Books
Penguin Books is a British publishing, publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Allen Lane with his brothers Richard and John, as a line of the publishers The Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the following year."About Penguin – company history" , Penguin Books. Penguin revolutionised publishing in the 1930s through its inexpensive paperbacks, sold through Woolworths Group (United Kingdom), Woolworths and other stores for Sixpence (British coin), sixpence, bringing high-quality fiction and non-fiction to the mass market. Its success showed that large audiences existed for serious books. It also affected modern British popular culture significantly through its books concerning politics, the arts, and science. Penguin Books is now an imprint (trade name), imprint of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oh William!
''Oh William!'' is a novel by American writer Elizabeth Strout, published on October 19, 2021, by Random House. The novel returns to the fictional rural town of Amgash, Illinois, from Strout's ''My Name Is Lucy Barton'' (2016) and '' Anything Is Possible'' (2017). The book was a ''New York Times'' and IndieBound best seller. It was longlisted and shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize which was announced on September 6, 2022. Reception ''Oh William!'' was a ''New York Times'' and IndieBound best seller and received positive reviews from various outlets. ''Booklist'' provided ''Oh William!'' a starred review and called it "a masterful, wise, moving, and ultimately uplifting meditation on human existence." ''Publishers Weekly'' also provided a starred review. Pankaj Mishra of ''The New York Review of Books'' complimented Strout's prose, stating her "unshowy, sparing of metaphor ... vivid with both necessary and contingent detail, matches her democracy of subject and theme, and s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Strout
Elizabeth Strout (born January 6, 1956) is an American novelist and author. She is widely known for her works in literary fiction and her descriptive characterization. She was born and raised in Portland, Maine, and her experiences in her youth served as inspiration for her novels–the fictional "Shirley Falls, Maine" is the setting of four of her seven novels. Strout's first novel, '' Amy and Isabelle'' (1998), met with widespread critical acclaim, became a national bestseller, and was adapted into a movie starring Elisabeth Shue. Her second novel, '' Abide with Me'' (2006), received critical acclaim but ultimately failed to be recognized to the extent of her debut novel. Two years later, Strout wrote and published ''Olive Kitteridge'' (2008), to critical and commercial success, grossing nearly $25 million with over one million copies sold as of May 2017. The novel won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The book was adapted into a multi Emmy Award-winning mini series and beca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faber And Faber
Faber and Faber Limited, usually abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in London. Published authors and poets include T. S. Eliot (an early Faber editor and director), W. H. Auden, Margaret Storey, William Golding, Samuel Beckett, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, Milan Kundera, and Kazuo Ishiguro. Founded in 1929, in 2006 the company was named the KPMG Publisher of the Year. Faber and Faber Inc., formerly the American branch of the London company, was sold in 1998 to the Holtzbrinck company Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG). Faber and Faber ended the partnership with FSG in 2015 and began distributing its books directly in the United States. History Faber and Faber began as a firm in 1929, but originates in the Scientific Press, owned by Sir Maurice and Lady Gwyer. The Scientific Press derived much of its income from the weekly magazine ''The Nursing Mirror.'' The Gwyers' desire to expand into trade publishing led them to Geoffrey Fab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Small Things Like These
''Small Things Like These'' is a historical fiction novel by Claire Keegan, published on 30 November 2021 by Grove Press. In 2022, the book won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize and the Booker Prize. Premise "It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church." Reception ''Small Things Like These'' was generally well-received by critics and received starred reviews from '' Kirkus Reviews'' and '' Library Journal.'' Multiple reviewers commented on the moral storytelling, which comes across as "a sort of anti-''Christmas Carol''." ''Kirkus'' called the book " stunning feat of storytelling and moral clarity." '' The Herald'' said ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claire Keegan
Claire Keegan (born 1968) is an Irish writer known for her short stories, which have been published in ''The New Yorker'', ''Best American Short Stories'', ''Granta'', and ''The Paris Review''. Biography Born in County Wicklow in 1968, Keegan is the youngest of a large Roman Catholic family. She traveled to New Orleans, Louisiana when she was 17 and studied English and political science at Loyola University. She returned to Ireland in 1992, and later lived for a year in Cardiff, Wales, where she undertook an MA in creative writing and taught undergraduates at the University of Wales. She subsequently received an M.Phil at Trinity College Dublin. Keegan's first collection of short stories, ''Antarctica'' (1999), won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and the William Trevor Prize. Her second collection of short stories, '' Walk the Blue Fields'', was published in 2007. Keegan's 'long, short story' '' Foster'' won the 2009 Davy Byrnes Short Story Award. ''Foster'' appeared in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HarperCollins
HarperCollins Publishers LLC is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies, alongside Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Hachette, and Macmillan. The company is headquartered in New York City and is a subsidiary of News Corp. The name is a combination of several publishing firm names: Harper & Row, an American publishing company acquired in 1987—whose own name was the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers (founded in 1817) and Row, Peterson & Company—together with Scottish publishing company William Collins, Sons (founded in 1819), acquired in 1989. The worldwide CEO of HarperCollins is Brian Murray. HarperCollins has publishing groups in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, India, and China. The company publishes many different imprints, both former independent publishing houses and new imprints. History Collins Harper Mergers and acquisitions Collins was bought by Rupert Murdoch's News Corpora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Influx Press
Influx Press is an independent British publishing company, based in north London, founded in 2012 by Gary Budden and Kit Caless. They are known for publishing "innovative and challenging fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction from across the UK and beyond". Background Influx Press was founded by Gary Budden and Kit Caless as an independent publishing company based in North London. The first title to be published, in 2012, was ''Acquired For Development By…'', edited by Budden and Caless, an anthology of commissioned short stories and poetry inspired by the London Borough of Hackney. Budden has said that he had not originally intended to set up a publishing company, "but after an internship at Richmond Literary Festival working with people like David Starkey and Quentin Letts, I realised I wanted to do something different to the mainstream", so with local donations and advice from other small publishers such as Penned in the Margins and Five Leaves, Influx Press was started. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Trees (Everett Novel)
''The Trees'' is a 2021 novel by American author Percival Everett, published by Graywolf Press. Set predominantly in the small town of Money, Mississippi, the novel follows a series of murders that seem to follow identical patterns. Summary In Money, Mississippi, a White man called Junior Junior is found dead in his own home with the body of an unknown Black man beside him. When the bodies are taken to the morgue it is soon discovered that the body of the unknown Black man has disappeared. It is found again in the home of Junior Junior's cousin, Wheat, who has also been murdered. Shortly after the body of the Black man disappears again. Two Black detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, Ed Morgan and Jim Davis, are sent to Money to investigate the situation. Ed and Jim go to a local bar frequented by the Black community of Money where they discover that both Junior and Wheat are relatives of Carolyn Bryant, a White woman who accused the teenage Emmett Till of ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
