The 2022 Booker Prize was given to The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, written by Sri Lanka's Shehan Karunatilaka. The judges hailed it as 'a searing, mordantly funny satire set amid the murderous mayhem of a Sri Lanka beset by civil war.'
at the Shaw Theatre in London on Oct. 14. On Monday, his novel won the 2022 Booker Prize.Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka holds his bookat the Shaw Theatre in London on Oct. 14. On Monday, his novel won the 2022 Booker Prize.The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
, written by Sri Lanka's Shehan Karunatilaka. The annual award, which was given Monday evening in London, is for a work of fiction written in English and published in the U.K. and Ireland. The panel of judges hailed Karunatilaka's novel as"a searing, mordantly funny satire set amid the murderous mayhem of a Sri Lanka beset by civil war.", was quickly marked as the arrival of a significant literary force. His work has also been published in
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