Camilla to present Booker Prize at first in-person ceremony since 2019

Buckingham Palace announced the Queen Consort would present the 2022 award after a reception and dinner at the Roundhouse in London.

The Queen Consort will present the Booker Prize 2022 at a north London ceremony next week.

Buckingham Palace announced on Tuesday that Camilla would present the award after a reception and dinner at the Roundhouse, in Chalk Farm, on Monday October 17.

It will be the first fully in-person Booker Prize awards ceremony since 2019.

Camilla opens a new school library in July this year in her role as patron of the National Literacy Trust — Camilla opened a new school library in July this year in her role as patron of the National Literacy Trust (Finbarr Webster/PA)

Camilla will then join a reception and dinner, where she will meet the shortlisted authors as well as judges and performers, including Dua Lipa who will be giving a speech.

After dinner, the Queen Consort will be invited on stage to present the winning author with the Booker Prize.

This year will be the seventh time Camilla has presented the award.

Camilla presents Eleanor Catton, centre, with the Man Booker Prize for her book The Luminaries in 2013 (Anthony Devlin/PA)

Camilla has been a long-time supporter of literacy in the UK, having visited schools and libraries as well workplace reading schemes and prisons to see the work of adult literacy schemes.

She also published a list of her nine favourite book recommendations over the Easter weekend during lockdown in 2020, followed by five more that August.

Following the positive response to her book recommendations, Camilla launched The Reading Room Instagram account in January 2021 as an online community space for book lovers.

The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English-speaking world.

The five shortlisted works of fiction this year are Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo, The Trees by Percival Everett, Treacle Walker by Alan Garner, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka, Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan and Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout.