{"id":14449,"date":"2022-10-18T16:34:41","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T14:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=14449"},"modified":"2022-10-19T08:57:21","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T06:57:21","slug":"the-sort-of-booker-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=14449","title":{"rendered":"The sort-of-Booker prize"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Booker prize for fiction 2022<\/a> was announced on a special edition of Front Row<\/em> on BBC Radio 4 last night (The Guardian<\/em> report here<\/a>) and presented by the Duchess of Dings Bums … I mean the Queen Consort … (forgive me Camilla, for you are famously a real reader!) to the Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka for his novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida<\/em>. I neither know the author nor his work, but I am secretly – well obviously not so secretly – pleased that it was not awarded (again) to a US publication. As I have said before, the US have enough of their own gongs and the anglophile book world deserves a space beyond those shores and the reach of a few powerful media conglomerates. On the later, it is also striking that Karunatilaka’s book<\/a> is published by a small UK independent press – Sort of Books<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Read here: https:\/\/t.co\/SA1FqqRAt9<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/aLNOGFHLPm<\/a><\/p>— The Booker Prizes (@TheBookerPrizes) October 18, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote>