Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize 2022 announced its Shortlist

The shortlist for this year’s Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize has just 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).

The Prize-winning amount for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize is £10,000 (A$17,500). 

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