Booker Prize - 2022(International) Flashcards
Booker Prize for Fiction
Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka
‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida’
The annual award, which was given Monday (17 October) evening at
London’s Roundhouse
who chaired the judging panel?
Neil MacGregor
Who was the first Sri Lankan??
Michael Ondaatje’s
1992 for ‘The English Patient’
The Booker Prize also includes a separate honour:
International Booker Prize
Who has become the first book written in an Indian language to be awarded the International Booker Prize?
“Tomb of Sand’
Tomb of Sand is Originally published in Hindi as
Ret Samadhi
Ret Samadhi(Tomb of Sand) is written by
Geetanjali Shree
* translated into English by Daisy Rockwell
The International Booker Prize began life in
2005
annually
Older name of International Booker Prize
Man Booker International Prize
Who was the first British writer - and first woman - to win the prize twice with the first two novels?
Hilary Mantel
in her Wolf Hall trilogy
‘Tomb of Sand’ was published by
Tilted Axis Press
International Man Booker Prize is awarded ____ for the finest single work of fiction
annually
has been translated into English and published in the UK and Ireland
