Booker Prize 2022 | The six shortlists: NoViolet Bulawayo, Claire Keegan, Alan Garner, Shehan Karunatilaka, Percival Everett, and Elizabeth Strout
The HinduWatch | Booker Prize 2022 contenders From a longlist of 13 books, six novels made it to the 2022 Booker Prize shortlist. And it includes the shortest book and oldest author ever to be nominated, besides “writers from five countries and a wealth of fabulous fiction”, as the Booker website states. “I thought a ghost story would be an interesting way of making sense of this trauma.” Claire Keegan Small Things Like These The novel — the shortest book ever on a Booker shortlist — follows Irish coal merchant Bill Furlong as he confronts the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church. In his Booker interview, he revealed how he got the germ of the story from a physicist friend who, as a child, met a tramp named Treacle — “who claimed to cure ‘everything but jealousy’”. *Updated to include 2022 Booker prize winner Shehan Karunatilaka’s quote.