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Young readers sought to be judges for Children’s Booker Prize

The new annual prize will celebrate the best contemporary fiction for children aged eight to 12 years old.

Evening Standard

Witches, Nazi collaborators and banned books: International Booker prize announces 2026 longlist

Thirteen books make this year’s longlist for translated fiction, which awards a first prize of £50,000

The Guardian - UK

Jarvis Cocker and Mary Beard announced as Booker prize judges

The historian is set to lead a ‘stellar’ 2026 panel featuring the Pulp frontman and other acclaimed writers, as the search begins for next year’s standout work of fiction

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Mary Beard and Jarvis Cocker join judging panel of 2026 Booker prize

Raymond Antrobus, Rebecca Liu, and Booker Prize-shortlisted author Patricia Lockwood make up the rest of the ‘stellar’ group

The Independent UK

Queen Camilla hosts Booker Prize-winning author David Szalay and Sarah Jessica Parker

Camilla congratulated David Szalay and the shortlisted authors during a special event

The Independent UK

Queen welcomes Booker Prize-winning author at Clarence House

Camilla congratulated David Szalay and the shortlisted authors during a special reception.

Evening Standard

Booker prize launches £50,000 children’s award

Children will help judge the new prize along with children’s laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce

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Booker Prize launches children’s fiction award with £50,000 up for grabs

The winner will be chosen by a combined panel of child and adult judges

The Independent UK

Booker Prize announces launch of first award for children’s fiction

The Children’s Booker Prize winner will be chosen by a combined panel of child and adult judges and awarded £50,000.

Evening Standard

Sarah Jessica Parker in possible conflict of interest over Booker longlisted author

Actor and book prize judge’s production company in process of developing novel by Claire Adam

The Guardian - UK

Most global Booker prize longlist in a decade features Kiran Desai and Tash Aw

Chair of judges Roddy Doyle says the 13 ‘gripping’ titles in contention for the £50,000 award all ‘examine identity, individual or national’

The Guardian - UK

Sarah Jessica Parker gets a ‘golden ticket’ to the judging panel of 2025 Booker prize

Sex and the City star says it is ‘the thrill of a life’ to be appointed to 2025 panel alongside Roddy Doyle, Kiley Reid and Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ to pick year’s best novel

The Guardian - UK

Sarah Jessica Parker joins judging panel of 2025 Booker prize

Sex and the City star says being asked ‘felt very daunting’, as she signs up to pick the year’s best novel with Roddy Doyle, Kiley Reid and Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

The Guardian - UK

‘I think I’m on the mend’: Queen attends Booker Prize reception after illness

Camilla congratulated the six shortlisted authors at Clarence House in her first public engagement since she contracted the seasonal bug.

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Irish author Paul Lynch wins Booker Prize 2023 with Prophet Song

Lynch is the fifth Irish author to win the award.

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Booker Prize announces reader competition to name trophy

Prestigious literary competition wants readers to name the female-figured statuette

The Independent UK

Booker Prize clarifies comment fans found ‘patronising and sickening’

‘We regret the offence caused by what was intended to be a celebration of the shared joy of reading,’ foundation issued in a statement

Evening Standard

Booker Prize accused of snobbery toward regional book club

The prestigious award faces backlash after remarks about “a steelworker and a dinner lady”

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Channel 4’s Jon Snow to let rip in new anti-Brexit book

The former Channel 4 News presenter says he is now “off the leash” after leaving the programme

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Booker prize unveils book club challenge

Six groups will be chosen to read a shortlisted book, with the most ‘original and engaging’ readers to be invited to the prize ceremony

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