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• W4321353679 abstract "On The 2022 Booker Prize Tara K. Menon (bio) Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo (Penguin, Viking) The Trees by Percival Everett (Influx, Graywolf) Treacle Walker by Alan Garner (Fourth Estate) The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka (Sort of Books, W. W. Norton) Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (Faber, Grove) Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout (Penguin, Random House) 2022 has not been a good year for England. It seemed impossible for the country to do worse than the racist, misogynistic Eton mess of a prime minister who partied through lockdown while the virus killed more than one hundred [End Page 154] thousand British people, but then, no one had anticipated he would be replaced by a cheese enthusiast Thatcher stan. Mere days after the transfer of actual power, the death of the old lady who models for banknotes initiated the long overdue transfer of symbolic power to her seventy-three-year-old son. The new king might have inherited the throne and fortune of his “darling mama,” but he appears not to have inherited any of her tight-lipped poise. The only appropriate word to describe the ten days of mourning, and the fawning coverage of it on both sides of the Atlantic, is embarrassing. The death of the queen inspired a nostalgia so fierce that the state instinctively resorted to the tactics that it had perfected during the years the British were ruthlessly subjugating people abroad—censoring the mildest criticism and arresting peaceful protestors. The other Liz, alongside yet another Etonian dipstick, gave the English people less than a week to recover from their aggressive mourning before she unleashed a financial plan that plunged the economy into chaos. Before I could finish this essay, Liz Truss fired Kwasi Kwarteng, her best friend and coconspirator, in a desperate attempt to save her job. Despite her best efforts, she became the shortest serving prime minister in the country’s history. For an incredible few days, it looked possible that Boris—the personification of the decline of the British Empire—would return from his luxury Caribbean vacation and get his old job back. So dire is the state of the nation that, at the time of writing, there has been collective relief that a Prada-clad ex-Goldman banker with all the personality of a cardboard box (who, thanks to his wife, is a quarter of a billion pounds richer than King Charles) will be taking the reins instead. I imagine, but cannot be sure, that he will still be in power when this goes to print. Amidst all this, it seems hardly consequential that the Booker Prize also seems to be losing faith in its own authority. Yet, here we are. Even though the Empire crumbled decades ago, the Booker Prize, one of the jewels in England’s soft-power crown, remains one [End Page 155] of the most prestigious literary prizes in the world. There are good reasons for this reputation: since its founding in 1969, winners have included: V. S. Naipaul, J. M. Coetzee, Kazuo Ishiguro, Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, and Hilary Mantel. That is, some of the best writers in the world. Theirs are recognizable names, at least partly because they won the Booker Prize. The Prize changes fortunes. Overnight, the winning book can jump to the top of bestseller lists and become the most requested title at libraries around the world. Obscure writers wake up the next day as literary stars. (When Damon Galgut won the Booker Prize for The Promise last year, he sold more copies in the three months after the announcement than in the seventeen years he has published in the United Kingdom.) Whether we like it or not, the Booker Prize has power. Here are the facts about this year’s prize. From 169 novels that were published between October 1, 2021, and September 30, 2022, and submitted for consideration, the judges (Neil MacGregor, Shahidha Bari, Helen Castor, M. John Harrison, and Alain Mabanckou) announced a thirteen-book longlist (the Booker dozen) on July 26, 2022, and then a six-book shortlist on September 6, 2022. None of the three debuts on the longlist made it to..." @default.
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