![]() ![]() There’s been a great concern about the dominance of English as the world language, the idea of a hegemonic, rather tyrannical, presence of English. ![]() The first thing that struck me-and not just me, but the other judges too-was the different ways in which English can be used and is used by people all around the world, to articulate different ways of thinking. Through those books, one can engage with the concerns, the hopes, the worries, the dreams of people all around the world, writing in English-and in so many different kinds of English.ĭid you notice any trends among the novels submitted for the Booker Prize in 2022? Looking across the 170 books that were submitted to us, I can’t believe there could have been a better time to understand the preoccupations of the world through what people were writing about. But I do think it’s a vintage year in terms of the shortlist. So I can’t compare the year of fiction, as a whole, with other years. It difficult for me to say, as in no previous year have I read so many novels. Having waded through this year’s submissions, do you feel it’s been a vintage year for fiction? It’s lovely to have you here to discuss the 2022 shortlist for the Booker Prize, which celebrates the best novels published over the last year. Foreign Policy & International Relations. ![]()
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