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Booker prize: it has been six years since an Australian was nominated. What gives?

The prize still holds immense power for Australian sales, but a 2014 rule change made it harder for local books to get a look-in

The Guardian - AU

Massey grad wins Booker

Sri Lankan novelist Shehan Karunatilaka has won the 2022 Booker Award - and might soon be returning to live in NZ, where he studied at Massey University and Whanganui Collegiate.

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Shehan Karunatilaka's 'The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida' wins 2022 Booker Prize

"The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida" by Shehan Karunatilaka won the 2022 Booker Prize on Monday at the Roundhouse in London.

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Booker Prize winner: Attack on Salman Rushdie caused me to self-censor

Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka won the prize just over two months after Sir Salman was stabbed in New York.

The Independent UK

Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka scoops Booker Prize award

The 47-year-old won with his second novel The Seven Moons Of Maali Almeida

Wales Online

Shehan Karunatilaka: Cricket writer, satirist and Booker Prize winner

The author has won the prestigious 2022 award.

The Independent UK

Novel by Sri Lanka's Shehan Karunatilaka wins Booker Prize

Writer Shehan Karunatilaka has won the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction on Monday for “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.”

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Shehan Karunatilaka wins Booker Prize 2022 for 'The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida'

Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka has been announced as the winner of the Booker Prize 2022 for his novel 'The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida'. Karunatilaka is the second author from Sri Lanka to win the prestigious award.

The Times of India

Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka wins 2022 Booker Prize

The prestigious award was given to The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, which the judges hailed as "a searing, mordantly funny satire set amid the murderous mayhem of a Sri Lanka beset by civil war."

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Shehan Karunatilaka’s Booker winner is narrated by a dead man - but it’s a novel full of life

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, about a photographer during Sri Lanka’s civil war, has tremendous comic energy

The Guardian - UK

Booker Prize 2022 winner The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is compelling about conflict – but not a simple read

Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka has won this year’s £50,000 prize for a metaphysical thriller about the horrors of civil war. It’s easy to see why the judges liked it, writes Martin Chilton, but a shame to see Claire Keegan miss out for her moving novella

The Independent UK

Shehan Karunatilaka wins Booker Prize 2022 for political satire The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, set during Sri Lankan Civil War

The 50,000-pound ($86,000) prize was awarded to copywriter-turned-author Shehan Karunatilaka, for a novel about a ghost trying to solve his own murder in 1989 during Sri Lanka's Civil War.

ABC News

Shehan Karunatilaka wins Booker Prize 2022 for The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Author jokingly asked if he could get £50,000 prize in cryptocurrency

The Independent UK

Epic ghost story wins this year’s Booker Prize

Shehan Karunatilaka accepted the £50,000 prize for his novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida at a ceremony at the Roundhouse

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Shehan Karunatilaka wins Booker prize for The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Judges described the Sri Lankan author’s second novel as a ‘rollercoaster journey through life and death’ and praised its audacity and ambition

The Independent UK

Camilla brings sister to Booker Prize ceremony and meets Dua Lipa

Camilla was wearing a black lace cocktail dress by Fiona Clare at the event in London.

The Conversation

How to win the Booker prize: is there a formula for ‘the finest in fiction’?

They say that everyone has a book in them. But how about a Booker prize? That’s probably what the six shortlisted authors of the Booker prize 2022 will be wondering as they count down the days to the live-streamed awards ceremony.

The Guardian - UK

Shehan Karunatilaka: ‘There’s a Sri Lankan gallows humour… we’ve been through a lot of catastrophes’

The novelist on finding dark farce in his country’s civil war, his grunge band past, and the ‘lottery win’ of the Booker shortlist

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The Guardian - UK

‘The story had been stirring in me for most of my life’: How I wrote a Booker-shortlisted novel

NoViolet Bulawayo, Percival Everett, Alan Garner and others reveal the inspiration for the books up for this year’s award

ABC News

The Booker Prize 2022 shortlist: a reading guide

A blistering critique of White America, a devastating novella set in Ireland, and a Zimbabwean Animal Farm for the 21st century are among the novels vying for the prestigious literary award.

The Times of India

Booker Prize 2022 shortlist announced

A shortlist of six books for the Booker Prize 2022 was announced in the wee hours of September 7, 2022 (India time). The six shortlisted books are "Set in different places at different times [and] are all about events that in some measure happen everywhere, and concern us all," Neil…

The Guardian - UK

Booker prize: Alan Garner becomes oldest author to be shortlisted

Only British writer on list will collect prize on 88th birthday if successful, but is up against five other books judges say ‘speak powerfully about important things’

The Independent UK

Booker Prize 2022 shortlist features oldest author

This year’s six shortlisted books have been revealed.

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