From - EURO News. Culture . By Tim Gallagher Edited by -Vinuri Randhula Silva The nominees on the Booker Prize list 2022 are up for a £50,000 prize - Copyright Booker Prize The shortlist for the Booker Prize has been announced with the oldest author ever making the cut. If successful, Alan Garner, the only British writer on the list, will collect the prize on his 88th birthday. The shortlist features his book ‘Treacle Walker’, the story of a young oddball, Joe Coppock, who befriends a wandering healer. The nod comes 55-years after Garner’s first literary award, the Carnegie Medal, for ‘The Owl Service’ The other five nominees are: ‘The Trees’ by American writer Percival Everett; ‘Small Things Like These’ by Irish writer Claire Keegan; ‘Glory’ by Zimbabwean author NoViolet Bulawago; ‘Oh William!’ by American author Elizabeth Strout; and ‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida’ by Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka. “These six books, we believe, speak powe