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The Booker Prize 2022

Booker Prize 2022 judges with the six shortlisted novels

Why you should read the Booker Prize 2022 shortlist, according to our judges

We asked the Booker Prize 2022 judges to explain what impressed and delighted them most about each book on the shortlist – and why they are relevant to today’s world

Quiz: which 2022 Booker-longlisted book should you read?

Casual Readers Club (East London) at the Booker Prize 2022 shortlist event, The Serpentine, London

Meet the official Booker Prize 2022 book clubs as they prepare to read this year's shortlist

Meet the authors: interviews with the Booker Prize 2022 longlisted writers

What everyone is saying about the Booker Prize 2022 shortlist

Discover the 2022 shortlist

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

by Shehan Karunatilaka

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

The 2022 shortlist in numbers

Age of author Alan Garner, shortlisted for his book Treacle Walker

116

Number of pages of Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These, the shortest book nominated in the prize’s history

The number of second novels on the shortlist - Glory, Small Things Like These and The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

169

The number of books read by the 2022 judges

The approximate number of published works the shortlisted authors have written between them

The number of nationalities represented on the shortlist

The number of publishers appearing for the first time

The date in October when the winner of the Booker Prize 2022 will be announced

The 2022 shortlisted authors

NoViolet Bulawayo

Percival Everett

Alan Garner

Shehan Karunatilaka

Claire Keegan

Elizabeth Strout

The International Booker Prize 2023

Meet the International Booker Prize 2023 judges

The panel of judges is chaired by the prize-winning French-Moroccan novelist, Leila Slimani. The panel also includes Uilleam Blacker, one of Britain’s leading literary translators from Ukrainian; Tan Twan Eng, the Booker-shortlisted Malaysian novelist; Parul Sehgal, staff writer and critic at the New Yorker; and Frederick Studemann, Literary Editor of the Financial Times.

Exclusive features from the Booker Library

'Either write your books or don't write them, but don't write them being scared'

The Booker Prize’s most decorated author, Salman Rushdie has lived under a death sentence for over thirty years. But as well as recognising his immense bravery, we must celebrate his limitless imagination and his impact on the literary landscape

Scene from the 2012 film Life of Pi, directed and produced by Ang Lee

Yann Martel on writing Life of Pi: 'You want a sense that it was written in one breath'

The Booker Prize guide to... dystopian fiction

A still from Schindler's List showing a girl in a red coat

'I knew where the good stuff was': Thomas Keneally on how he researched and wrote Schindler's Ark

Anita Desai: 'I thought the book would seem ghostly now, but it's all coming around again'

Events for 2022 featuring Booker authors

Winning author Damon Galgut at the 2021 Booker Prize Awards Ceremony

What's on where and dates for your diary

From intimate gatherings to bustling festivals, we celebrate the finest in fiction at these events featuring Booker Prize authors

The 2022 International Booker Prize

Shortlisted translators, 2022 International Booker Prize

The art of translation

As Tomb of Sand wins the 2022 International Booker Prize, readers and translators tell Sarah Shaffi how translated literature can help us learn more about ourselves and each other

Daisy Rockwell, translator, and Geetanjali Shree author of Tomb of Sand

Why Tomb of Sand won the 2022 International Booker Prize and why you should read it – according to our judges

Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree_shortlist

The International Booker Prize effect: how Tomb of Sand made literary history

Watch the 2022 ceremony

Geetanjali Shree, winner of the International Booker Prize 2022 for Tomb of Sand

More on the 2022 International Booker Prize

Winner The International Booker Prize 2022

Tomb of Sand

By: Geetanjali Shree
Translated by: Daisy Rockwell

An urgent yet engaging protest against the destructive impact of borders, whether between religions, countries or genders. Translated by Daisy Rockwell.

Watch our videos

Watch the 2020 Booker Prize ceremony, in which Douglas Stuart wins the prize with his book, Shuggie Bain.

The Booker Prize 2002 full ceremony, in which Yann Martel wins the prize with his book, Life of Pi

Kazuo Ishiguro Wins The 1989 Booker Prize for The Remains of the Day

Watch the full Channel 4 broadcast of the controversial 1985 Booker Prize winning ceremony, including interviews with the shortlisted authors and the deeply divided judges.

The moment Damon Galgut wins the 2021 Booker Prize.

Chair of the 1991 judging panel Jeremy Treglown welcomes Ben Okri to the stage to collect the Booker Prize for The Famished Road.

‘Despite the violence… I find it to be a book of some considerable joy.’ Author Keri Hulme shares her thoughts on her powerful and influential 1985 Booker Prize-winning novel, The Bone People, including the relationships between the main protagonists – both Māori and Pākehā (white people).

Watch the 1991 Booker Prize ceremony, originally broadcast by the BBC as a Late Show special, in which Martin Amis makes his first appearance as a shortlisted writer, and Ben Okri wins for The Famished Road.

Watch the moment Keri Hulme’s The Bone People is announced as the 1985 Booker Prize winning book, and hear Hulme’s immediate reaction just after on the phone to Hermione Lee.

The full ceremony from 1992, in which Michael Ondaatje wins the prize with The English Patient.

The ultimate prize to win in the English speaking world

J.M. Coetzee, winning for the second time in 1999

The 2021 Booker Prize

Find out more about Damon Galgut

Damon Galgut has won the Booker Prize 2021 with The Promise, on his third time of being shortlisted for the award. Find out more about the author, his work and his inspiration here.