Oldest author on the Booker Prize shortlist for 2022
The oldest author to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize is the British author Alan Garner.
On the night of the prize ceremony in a month, Garner, who was born in Cheshire and raised in Alderley Edge,
His book Treacle Walker has entered the shortlist.
Treacle Walker, a fable that tells the tale of a young boy who forms a "unlikely friendship with an enigmatic, wandering healer,
" took "almost exactly eight years" from the initial idea to the final book, according to the author,
who is renowned for his children's fantasy works and retellings of British folk tales.
Her other acclaimed works include Foster and Walk The Blue Fields.
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