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London: The winner of the prestigious Booker Prize 2022, among the six novels to reach the final competitions, will be unveiled on Monday evening, during a ceremony broadcast live on television, for the first time since 2019 due to the pandemic.
Camilla, the wife of King Charles III, will receive the famous award in one of her most important public duties since her husband’s accession to the British throne last month.
Five of the six finalists will participate in the event, while the dean of the contenders of all categories, Alan Garner, who celebrates his 88th birthday on Monday, will participate through a video view. He was selected for the competition thanks to his novel “Trickle Walker”.
Also competing is the short novel “Small Things Like This” by Irishman Claire Keegan, which won the Orwell Prize for political fiction in mid-July. The 116-page story revolves around a timber and coal trader in Ireland in 1985.
Two other novelists also enter the final competition for the Booker Prize: Zimbabwe Noviolet Bulawayo for her book Glory and American Elizabeth Strout for Oh William!
The competition also includes Sri Lankan writer Sheehan Karanotilaka for his book “The Seven Moons of Maali Almedia”, a satirical novel set during the country’s civil war.
The last participant in the competition is the American Percival Everett, for his novel “The Trees”, in which he returns to the incident of the dragging of the black American Emmett Till in Mississippi in 1955.
Last year, the award went to South African writer Damon Galgot for his book “The Promise,” which focuses on a white peasant family in post-apartheid South Africa.
The winner will receive an economic reward of 50 thousand pounds (about 60 thousand dollars), with some worldwide fame.
In recent years, the award has been received by some of the most famous English-language writers, including Salman Rushdie, Magarrett Atwood and Hilary Mantel, who passed away last month at the age of 70.
Turkish-British writer Alef Shafak is expected to face the knife attack that targeted Salman Rushdie during his attendance at a conference in the United States last August.
In addition, during the concert, the famous singer Dua Lipa gave a speech explaining the importance of books in her life and in her artistic path.
