Interesting (surprising) selection!
The
judges for the Booker Prize 2023 are revealed today, December 13. Novelist
Esi Edugyan, twice-shortlisted for the Booker Prize, will chair the panel and will be joined by
Adjoa Andoh, actor, writer and director;
Mary Jean Chan, poet, lecturer and critic;
James Shapiro, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and author specialising in Shakespeare; and
Robert Webb, actor and writer.
The judging panel for next year's Booker Prize will be chaired by Canadian novelist Esi Edugyan and features a leading Shakespeare specialist, one of poetry's rising stars and two much-loved actors
thebookerprizes.substack.com