Booker Prize 2022

• Sheehan Karunatilaka won the Booker Prize 2022 for his novel 'The Seven Moons of Mali Almeida'.

• Shehan Karunatilaka is a Sri Lankan writer. His first novel of 2011, 'Chinaman' won the Commonwealth Prize.

• Karunatilaka has become the second Sri Lankan to win this award.

• Michael Ondaatje was the first Sri Lankan to win the award. Ondatje won the award in 1992 for 'The English Patient'.

• 'The Seven Moons of Mali Almeida' tells the story of the photographer of its title.

• South African author Damon Galgut won the 2021 Booker Prize for his novel "The Promise".