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Shehan Karunatilaka is the only subcontinent entry from Sri Lankan this year with The Seven Moons Of Maali Almeida
FirstpostThe 2022 Booker Prize longlist of 13 books, referred to as the Booker dozen and released here on Tuesday, is dominated by American authors, including previously longlisted writer Elizabeth Strout. The Booker 13 is completed by Irish writers Audrey Magee for the book The Colony’ and Claire Keegan for Small Things Like These’ and Zimbabwean author NoViolet Bulawayo for Glory’. Sri Lankan Shehan Karunatilaka is the only subcontinent entry this year with The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida’. Over the last seven months or so, we have read and discussed 169 works of fiction, all written in English, by authors and about subjects from all over the globe; 169 journeys to worlds conjured and created by the wielding of words alone, said writer-broadcaster Neil MacGregor, chair of the 2022 Booker Prize judging panel.
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