Booker Prize 2022

10pointer20 Oct, 2022Education

10POINTER- Sri Lankan author, Shehan Karunatilaka has won Britain?s Booker Prize 2022 for fiction for his work ?The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida?, about a journalist murdered amid the country?s sectarian strife. What is the Booker Prize? The Booker Prize is one of the best-known literary awards for fiction writing in English, including both novels and collections of short stories. It was first awarded in 1969. Every year a panel of judges decides the best work of the year, with the criteria being that it must be written in English and published in the UK and Ireland. This panel of judges is picked from among eminent cultural historians, writers, professors, and novelists, and others from related fields. For the Booker Prize, the winner receives ?50,000.