Booker Prize judges for 2021 announced
In July, the ‘Booker Dozen’ of 12 or 13 books will be announced. This will be followed by a shortlist of six books in the autumn. The winner will be announced in November 2021 December 16, 2020 2:30:31 pm
The winner will be announced i November next year. (Source: The Booker Prizes/Twitter)
The judges for Booker Prize 2021 have been disclosed. The panel for next year will be chaired by historian Maya Jasanoff, and consists of writer Horatia Harrod; actor Natascha McElhone, writer and former Archbishop Rowan Williams, and novelist and professor Chigozie Obioma.
“When Douglas Stuart won the 2020 Booker Prize, he told Bernardine Evaristo, from whom he took the baton, that she had ‘lifted all voices’ and that he hoped to do her proud in the year to come. Booker Prize judges never speculate about the spirit in which the winner will accept the prize their remit is to choose the best book, nothing el