The Booker Prize 2022 programme for new-look winner ceremony at the Roundhouse announced with one week to go

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• Her Majesty The Queen Consort will present the trophy to the winner, in one of her first public engagements since the change in reign  
• The evening, which will celebrate talent from across the cultural spectrum, will be hosted by stand-up comedian and writer, Sophie Duker  
• Singer-songwriter Dua Lipa will deliver a keynote speech on how a love of reading has shaped her imagination, her identity, and her career as a global pop superstar 
• Guests will watch a musical performance from Roundhouse Resident Artist, India Shan  
• The ceremony will include filmed extracts from the shortlisted books, directed by Kevin Thomas and starring: Nikki Amuka-Bird, Jarvis Cocker, Anna Friel, David Harewood, Sharon Horgan and Prasanna Puwanarajah  
• The original 1969 Booker Prize trophy is being reinstated in memory of its creator, the beloved children’s author and illustrator Jan Pieńkowski, who died in February this year  
• On the night, video highlights will be shared on the Booker Prizes social channels: thebookerprizes.com | @TheBookerPrizes | #BookerPrize2022.

Shortlisted authors NoViolet Bulawayo, Percival Everett, Shehan Karunatilaka, Claire Keegan and Elizabeth Strout will all be in attendance, with Alan Garner attending virtually. Samira Ahmed will speak with this year’s Chair of judges, Neil MacGregor, before he announces the winner of the £50,000 Booker Prize 2022, chosen in collaboration with his fellow judges: academic and broadcaster Shahidha Bari; historian Helen Castor; novelist and critic M. John Harrison; and novelist, poet and professor Alain Mabanckou. 

The winner will be presented with the Booker Prize trophy by Her Majesty The Queen Consort, in one of her first public engagements since the change in reign. Her Majesty has an enduring interest in literacy and reading. In her role as Duchess of Cornwall, Her Majesty was a long-standing Patron of National Literacy Trust (NLT) and championed Books Unlocked, which is delivered by NLT in partnership with the Booker Prize Foundation. Her Majesty’s book club, ‘The Reading Room’ has featured Booker nominated authors and helps readers and non-readers alike find and connect with books they will love. 

The winner of the Booker Prize 2021, Damon Galgut will pass on the baton by presenting the winner with their prize money. 

As part of the Front Row programme, Dua Lipa, best known as a world-renowned singer-songwriter, but also a passionate advocate of books and reading will deliver a keynote on how a love of reading has shaped her imagination, her identity, and her career as a global pop superstar. She has championed many Booker books from A Fine Balance to Girl, Woman, Other. 

Meanwhile, Samira Ahmed will interview British-Turkish author Elif Shafak, who appeared on the Booker Prize shortlist in 2019 with Salman Rushdie, about what the attack on his life means for writers around the world, and the ceremony will also acknowledge the extraordinary achievement of the late double-Booker winner Hilary Mantel. 

The event will also be attended by the winners of the inaugural Booker Prize Book Club Challenge. The Booker Prize recently partnered with the national charity The Reading Agency to select six groups to read and discuss a different book on the 2022 shortlist, and compete for places at the winner ceremony for the first time.

The winning group will be chosen by the Booker Prize 2022 judging panel. 

• Find out more about the six book clubs here.

This year, for the first time in decades, the original Booker Prize trophy is being reinstated - in memory of its creator, the beloved children’s author and illustrator Jan Pieńkowski, who died in February this year. The trophy was originally commissioned by Booker Prize founder Tom Maschler from Jan, who based it on an art deco lamp he found in a junk shop in Portobello Market. It was first awarded to PH Newby, in whose home it has played the role of plant stand and key holder, and whose wife painted it gold. 

The Booker Prize 2022 trophy is based on a 3-D scan of the one awarded to PH Newby, whose daughter, Sarah Schenk, kindly lent it for scanning. The futuristic process was orchestrated – and the trophy produced - by the Factum Foundation, known for previously producing a facsimile of the Tomb of Tutankhamun, whose recording specialists scanned the trophy using photogrammetry at their ArchiOx project in the Bodleian Library. The original trophy was over 60cm tall. The 2022 trophy will be rematerialised as a 3D print at a height of 38cm and painted gold. The winner will in due course receive the new trophy in gold-coloured pewter. After the ceremony, Booker Prize readers will be invited to take part in a competition to name the new trophy.

• Read more about the trophy here.

Ahead of the winner ceremony, there are plenty of opportunities for readers to get to know the shortlisted authors and their books. BBC Radio 4’s Front Row is airing interviews with each of the authors Monday to Thursday from October 5 to October 13. In an event held in partnership with Waterstones, the writers will appear in conversation at the Shaw Theatre in Kings Cross, London, on Friday October 14, chaired by broadcaster and journalist Bidisha. The following day, on Saturday October 15, the shortlisted authors will take part in The Times & The Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival in an event chaired by Director of the Booker Prize Foundation, Gaby Wood. After the announcement, the first public event with the Booker Prize 2022 winner takes place on Thursday October 20 at Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall as part of London Literature Festival 2022, alongside 2021 Booker winner Damon Galgut and chaired by novelist Sara Collins.

• Find out more about these events here.