Ondaatje Prize 2022 shortlist announced

The shortlist for this year’s £10,000 (A$17,500) Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize has been announced.

The annual award recognises the book ‘of highest literary merit—fiction, nonfiction or poetry—which best evokes the spirit of a place’.

The six shortlisted titles are:

• The Manningtree Witches (A K Blakemore, Granta)
• Islands of Abandonment: Life in the post-human landscape (Cal Flyn,William Collins)
• Writing the Camp (Yousif M Qasmiyeh, Broken Sleep Books)
• Empireland: How imperialism has shaped modern Britain (Sathnam Sanghera, Viking)
• The Island of Missing Trees (Elif Shafak, Penguin)
• Free (Lea Ypi, Allen Lane).

The winner will be announced on 4 May. Last year’s Ondaatje Prize winner was Ruth Gilligan for her literary thriller The Butchers (Atlantic).

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