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Oct 2022
42m 6s

The Booker Prize for Fiction 2022

Bbc Radio 4
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The live ceremony for the 2022 Booker Prize for Fiction, hosted by Samira Ahmed. The winner of the £50,000 prize will be announced by the chair of judges Neil MacGregor in the presence of Her Majesty The Queen Consort, who will award the trophy. The author Elif Shafak reflects on the recent violent attack on Sir Salman Rushdie, whose novel Midnight's Children was chosen as the Booker of Bookers. And the singer songwriter Dua Lipa gives her thoughts on the power of books.

Photographer credit: John Williams

Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Sarah Johnson

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