The Booker Prize is one of the most prestigious prizes in the world for fiction writing. A panel of five esteemed judges for Booker Prize 2021 was announced on December 15, 2020.The panel 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 else. But the warmth with which recent winners have been received by readers is a heartening consequence: the more people believe The Booker Prize is for them, the better it will be for good writing and good reading overall. If part of the Booker’s long-term effect is to encourage a range of excellence in new writing, it does so by showing that a welcoming group of readers exists for that work. The 2021 panel of judges is stellar in that respect: distinguished and exacting, open-minded and hopeful. They are led by an historian whose global view of literature and its context is eminently equal to this global prize. I can’t wait to hear them discuss the results of their reading together,” Gaby Wood, Literary Director of the Booker Prize Foundation, was quoted as saying in their website.
The Booker Prize is given to the best novel published in the UK in the previous year. Submissions for the 2021 prize started on December 16, 2020 and entries published between 1 October 2020 and 30 September 2021 will be considered for the award.
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