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Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilak has been awarded the Booker Prize 2022 for his second novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. The 47-year-old author is the second after Michael Ondaatje to be awarded the award in 1992 for ‘The English Patient’, to win a literary prize of £50,000 (GBP) at a ceremony in London on October 2023.

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. is the story of the photographer of its title, who, after his death in 1990, reaches a place that looks like a visa office in heaven. Not knowing what killed him, Mali has seven moons to approach the people he loves the most. In the meantime, there seems to be a plethora of pictures of the atrocities of the civil war in his hands, which if they come to the fore, will shake the country.

Booker Prize Winner 2023

Booker Prize Winner will be announced soon and the Last year’s Winner Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka on October 2022 Monday has become the Booker Prize Winner in 2022 for the novel. Karunatilaka has been given this award for the book The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. The official verified Twitter handle of the Booker Prize tweeted that we are happy to announce that the winner of the Booker Prize 2022 is Shehan Karunatilaka. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. is the second novel by Shehan Karunatilaka.

The novel is a raucous, poignantly funny satire set in the midst of the deadly devastation of Sri Lanka beset by civil war. Shehan Karunatilaka is one of the best writers in Sri Lanka and apart from his novels, he has also written songs, screenplays, and travel stories. The Sri Lankan author started thinking about it in 2009 after the end of the civil war. Then there was a heated debate over how many civilians were killed and whose fault it was.

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Booker Prize 2023 Nominees 

Booker Prize 2022 Nominees 

What is a Booker Prize?

Like Oscar Award, Film Fare Award, etc. are awarded for outstanding work in the world of cinema, similarly, many awards are given for better contributions to the field of literature. One of them is Booker Prize and now via this article, we will talk about the Booker Prize and its winner. The Booker Prize is awarded jointly by the Booker Company and the British Publishing Association.

This is a prize that is said to be Britain’s biggest prize given in the field of literature, which comes after the Nobel Prizes. Every year great writers who write books are honored with this award. In this, cash is also provided to the winners along with the prize and apart from this many other facilities are provided to them.

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History of the Booker Prize

The Booker Prize was started as the Man Booker International Prize and it was initially a biennial award, and there was no stipulation that the literary work must be written in a language other than English. The prize money for Booker Prize was originally £21,000 and was increased to £50,000 in 2002.

Indian Booker Prize Winners

List of Booker Prize Winners- 1969-2023