Writer Shehan Karunatilaka won the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction on Monday for 'The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida'
Treacle WalkerThe five-member jury read 170 novels before choosing a winner. MacGregor said all the books explored the actions of individuals in a world “where fixed points are moving, disintegrating.”
He said “what’s striking in all of them is the weight of history”—from the legacy of racism in the United States to colonialism and repression in Zimbabwe—and how that shapes the choices and actions of individuals. “History as a player in contemporary politics is, I think, one of the things that emerges from most of the shortlist books,” MacGregor said. “Which is hardly surprising, given the current debates about history.”
“All these books show why it has to be taught, addressed, and discussed—because otherwise we can’t understand the framework within which people have to make the big choices, the essential choices, of their lives,” he said. Founded in 1969, the Booker Prize has a reputation for transforming writers’ careers. It was originally open to British, Irish, and Commonwealth writers butSouth Africa’s Damon GalgutThe event was the first fully in-person Booker ceremony since the pre-pandemic event in 2019 and the first for longtime literacy champion Camilla since her husband became King Charles III last month after the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth II.
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