Booker Prize for Fiction 2022 Shortlist
Author | Nationality | Title | Publisher, Imprint |
NoViolet Bulawayo | Zimbabwean | Glory | Penguin Random House, Vintage, Chatto & Windus |
Percival Everett | American | The Trees | Influx Press |
Alan Garner | British | Treacle Walker | HarperCollins, Fourth Estate |
Shehan Karunatilaka | Sri Lankan | The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida | Sort of Books |
Claire Keegan | Irish | Small Things Like These | Faber & Faber |
Elizabeth Strout | American | Oh William! | Penguin Random House, Penguin General, Vintage |
Booker Prize for Fiction 2022 shortlisted authors are, upper row from left, NoViolet Bulawayo (image: NyeLynTho); Percival Everett (image: Nacho Goberna); and Alan Garner (image: David Heke). And on the lower row, from left: Shehan Karunatilaka; Claire Keegan (image: Frederic Stucin); and Elizabeth Strout (image: Leonard Cendamo). All images provided by the Booker Prize Foundation
The October award ceremony for the Booker Prize for Fiction is to be held at the Roundhouse in London and to be broadcast live as part of a Front Row special on BBC Radio 4 from 9:15 to 10:00 p.m. BST (20:15 to 21:00 p.m. GMT), with television coverage expected to run on BBC News at Ten and news channels.
Here is video from tonight’s Booker Prize for Fiction shortlist announcement at the Serpentine.