Booker Prize Winner

The list of Booker Prize Winners 2022 is imperative for competitive exams. Questions on Booker Prizes
and its winners form an important part of the current affairs and general awareness section.

Hence, the article will provide the list of Booker Prize winners 2020 along with related facts and
questions to assist in exam preparation.

Booker Prize Winner 2022

Booker Prize - Key facts

1. The Booker Prize for Fiction was formerly known as the Booker–McConnell Prize (1969–2001)
and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019). It was first awarded in 1969.
2. Its aim was to stimulate the reading and discussion of contemporary fiction
3. In 1970, Bernice Rubens became the first woman to win the Booker Prize, for The Elected
Member.
4. The younger sibling of the Booker Prize is the International Booker Prize which is given for
fiction in translation.

What is the Booker Prize?

The Booker Prize is a leading literary award in the English-speaking world. The prize has brought
recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over 50 years. It is awarded annually to the
best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK or Ireland.

Booker Prize Winner 2022

1. The 2022 Booker Prize for Fiction was announced on 17 October 2022.
2. The Booker Prize 2022 was awarded to Shehan Karunatilaka for his novel, The
Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
3. Sehan is the second Sri Lankan author to win the Booker Prize after it was awarded
to Michael Ondaatje for The English Patient in 1992

The winner receives £50,000 as well as the £2,500 awarded to each of the six shortlisted authors. Both
the winner and the shortlisted authors are guaranteed a global readership plus a dramatic increase in
book sales.

The Nominees for Shortlist Authors are as follows-

 Booker Prize Winners 2022 - Nominees for Shortlist

Author Title Publisher Country

Shehan Karunatilaka The Seven Moons of Sort of Books Sri Lanka

Maali Almeida

NoViolet Bulawayo Glory Vintage Publishing Zimbabwe/USA

Percival Everett Trees Influx Press United States

Alan Garner Treacle Walker Harper Collins England

Claire Keegan Small Things in Life Faber & Faber Ireland

Elizabeth Strouth Oh William! Penguin Books United States

The International Booker Prize Winner 2022

International Booker Prize - Key facts

1. The International Booker Prize was previously known as The Man Booker International Prize. It
was established in 2005.
2. The Booker prize is honoured for finest in fiction while the International Booker Prize is
honoured for finest fiction translated in English and published in the UK or Ireland.
3. It honours fiction on a global basis to encourage more reading of quality fiction from all over the
world.

What is the International Booker Prize?

The International Booker Prize (formerly known as the Man Booker International Prize) is awarded
annually for a single book, translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland. The vital work of
translators is celebrated.

International Booker Prize Winner 2022

1. 2022 international Booker prize winner is Geetanjali Shree,(India) for her work ‘Tomb
of Sand’, translated from Hindi by Daisy Rockwell (Tilted Axis Press)

The prize money of £50,000 for the International Booker prize is divided equally between the author
and translator. Each shortlisted author and translator also receives £1,000.

The Nominees for Shortlist Authors for International Booker Prize 2022 are as follows-
 International Booker Prize Winners 2022 - Nominees for Shortlist

Author Title Publisher Translator

Bora Chung Cursed Bunny Honford Star Anton Hur

Jon Fosse A New Name: Damion Searls Fitzcarraldo Editions

Septology VI-VII

Mieko Kawakami, Heaven Picador Sam Bett and David

Boyd

Claudia Piñeiro Elena Knows Charco Press Frances Riddle

Olga Tokarczuk The Books of Jacob Fitzcarraldo Editions Jennifer Croft

List of Booker Prize Winners 2010 to 2022

The table below highlights the winners of the Booker Prize award for previous years from 2010 to 2022.

Year Author Title/Work Publisher

2022 Shehan Karunatilaka The Seven Moons of Sort of Books

Maali Almeida

2021 Damon Galgut The Promise Umuzi

2020 Douglas Stuart Shuggie Bain Grove Atlantic

2019 Margaret Atwood The Testaments Vintage, Chatto &

Windus

2018 Anna Burns Milkman Faber & Faber

2017 George Saunders Lincoln in the Bardo Bloomsbury

2016 Paul Beatty The Sellout Oneworld Publications

2015 Marlon James A Brief History of Oneworld Publications

Seven Killings

2014 Richard Flanagan The Narrow Road to Chatto & Windus

the Deep North

2013 Eleanor Catton The Luminaries Granta

2012 Hilary Mantel Bring Up the Bodies Fourth Estate

2011 Julian Barnes The Sense of an Jonathan Cape

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2010 Howard Jacobson The Finkler Question Bloomsbury

List of International Booker Prize Winners [2016-2022]

This table highlights the previous year's winners of the International Booker prize. It will give the name
of the author, their work and, translators (who translated in English) and publisher.

List of International Booker Prize Winners - [2016-2022]

Year Author Country Work Translator Language

2022 Geetanjali India Tomb of Sand Daisy Hindi

Shree Rockwell

2021 David Diop France At Night All Anna French

Blood is Black Moschovakis

2020 Marieke Lucas Netherlands The Michele Dutch

Rijneveld Discomfort of Hutchison
Evening

2019 Jokha Oman Celestial Marilyn Booth Arabic

al-Harthi Bodies

2018 Olga Poland Flights Jennifer Croft Polish

Tokarczuk

2017 David Israel A Horse Walks Jessica Cohen Hebrew

Grossman Into a Bar

2016 Han Kang South Korea The Deborah Smith Korean

Vegetarian

List of Indians Who Won the Booker Prize

The booker prize is honoured not to any author but to a specific work of fiction. The table below
highlights the list of Indians or persons from Indian descent who have been honoured with the Booker
prize award.

Booker Prize Winners - Indians

Year Work/Book Author

1971 In a Free State V.S. Naipaul

1981 Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie

1997 The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy

2006 The Inheritance of Loss Kiran Desai

2008 The White Tiger Aravind Adiga