20-Year-Old Leila Mottley Just Became the Youngest-Ever Person Nominated for the Booker Prize
, has earned praise from the likes of Dave Eggers and Ruth Ozeki.“Really truly honored to share that Nightcrawling has been longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize,” the Oakland native posted on following the announcement. This content can also be viewed on the site it from.*Nightcrawling—*which selected for Oprah’s Book Club—is inspired by a true story of corruption within the Oakland police and follows 17-year-old Kiara Johnson as she tries to make a living as a sex worker. Nightcrawling is one of three debuts in the running for this year’s award, alongside Maps Of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer and After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz.Other points of discussion from the 2022 longlist? The number of who made the cut—the Booker only began considering US-based talent in 2014—and the volume of works from independent publishers (eight of the Booker 13 came via indie presses, with first-time appearances from Influx Press and Sort of Books).