Booker Prize 2022: Queen Consort To Award Prestigious Prize

The Queen Consort will present the Booker Prize to one of six hopefuls on Monday as the awards foundation holds its first large-scale event since 2019.

The prize could go to the oldest author ever nominated – 88-year-old Alan Garner – or to Claire Keegan, for the shortest novel in Booker Prize history.

Taking place at London’s Roundhouse, singer-songwriter Dua Lipa will give a speech about her love of reading.

Tributes will also be paid to the late two-time Booker winner Hilary Mantel.

Mantel, who won the prize for two of her books from her critically-acclaimed Wolf Hall trilogy, died last month at the age of 70.

All but one of the six shortlisted authors is due to attend the evening ceremony in person. Garner, whose birthday is also on Monday, is expected to appear virtually.