The Booker Prizes | Shehan Karunatilaka's Booker Prize Year | The Booker Prize Podcast, Episode 22 @TheBookerPrizes | Uploaded November 2023 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
We're only three days away from finding out who will take home the Booker Prize 2023 so who better to speak to than last year's winner? Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka won the prize for his searing satire The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida in 2022, and the 13 months since his win has been a whirlwind of activity. This week, Shehan joins us on the podcast to tell us all about the past year and what the 2023 winner can expect on the night of the award ceremony and beyond.
In this episode Jo and James speak to Shehan about:
- What it's like to be at the Booker Prize award ceremony – and how it felt to be announced as the 2022 winner
- The strangeness of winning the Booker Prize amidst economic crisis and civil unrest in Sri Lanka
- The impossibility of making an acceptance speech in one minute
- Why he paints his fingernails black
- How he spent his prize money
- The whirlwind that has been the 13 months since he won the Booker Prize
- His daily writing and reading routine
Books and authors mentioned:
- The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/the-seven-moons-of-maali-almeida
- Agatha Christie
- Salman Rushdie
- Raymond Chandler
- John le Carré
- Armistead Maupin
A full transcript of the episode is available at our website: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/features/the-booker-prize-podcast-episode-22
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The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.
Previous winners include The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, The Promise by Damon Galgut, Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Bone People by Keri Hulme and many more.
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We're only three days away from finding out who will take home the Booker Prize 2023 so who better to speak to than last year's winner? Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka won the prize for his searing satire The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida in 2022, and the 13 months since his win has been a whirlwind of activity. This week, Shehan joins us on the podcast to tell us all about the past year and what the 2023 winner can expect on the night of the award ceremony and beyond.
In this episode Jo and James speak to Shehan about:
- What it's like to be at the Booker Prize award ceremony – and how it felt to be announced as the 2022 winner
- The strangeness of winning the Booker Prize amidst economic crisis and civil unrest in Sri Lanka
- The impossibility of making an acceptance speech in one minute
- Why he paints his fingernails black
- How he spent his prize money
- The whirlwind that has been the 13 months since he won the Booker Prize
- His daily writing and reading routine
Books and authors mentioned:
- The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/the-seven-moons-of-maali-almeida
- Agatha Christie
- Salman Rushdie
- Raymond Chandler
- John le Carré
- Armistead Maupin
A full transcript of the episode is available at our website: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/features/the-booker-prize-podcast-episode-22
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The Booker Prizes on TikTok: tiktok.com/@thebookerprizes
The Booker Prizes on Twitter: twitter.com/TheBookerPrizes
The Booker Prizes on Facebook: facebook.com/TheBookerPrizes
The Booker Prizes on Instagram: instagram.com/thebookerprizes
The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.
Previous winners include The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, The Promise by Damon Galgut, Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Bone People by Keri Hulme and many more.
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