Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka won Booker Prize, 2022

The Booker Prize:

• The prize was established as the Booker Prize for Fiction after the company Booker, McConnell Ltd began sponsoring the event in 1969.
• It became commonly known as the "Booker Prize" or the "Booker".
• The winner of the Booker Prize receives international publicity which usually leads to a sales boost.
• When the prize was created, only novels written by Commonwealth, Irish, and South African (and later Zimbabwean) citizens were eligible to receive the prize. However, in 2014 it was widened to any English-language novel —a change that proved controversial.
• A five-person panel constituted of authors, librarians, literary agents, publishers, and booksellers is appointed by the Booker Prize Foundation each year to choose the winning book.