Sunday Times journalist to advise Man Booker
21.07.09 Graeme Neill in The Bookseller

Peter Kemp, the Sunday Times fiction editor, has joined the Man Booker advisory committee.
The committee advises on all matters relating to the prize, particularly the selection of judges and the award's rules. Kemp has been fiction editor of the Sunday Times for the past 14 years and written for the paper for 25 years.
The longlist for this year's prize will be announced on 28th July. Following the announcement of 'The Booker Dozen', the 12 or 13 titles under serious consideration for the prize, the final shortlist of six books will be announced on 8th September.
The winner will be announced live on the BBC Ten O’Clock News at an awards dinner at London’s Guildhall on Tuesday 6th October.
Other members of the committee are: Ion Trewin, Chair (Literary Director, Man Booker Prizes); Richard Cable, md of Random House CCV, Mark Chilton, company secretary, Booker Ltd; Peter Clarke, chief executive, Man Group plc; Jonathan Douglas, director of the National Literacy Trust; Victoria Glendinning, writer; Basil Comely, BBC TV; Derek Johns, literary agent; Gerry Johnson, managing director, Waterstone’s; Nigel Newton, c.e.o. of Bloomsbury; Fiammetta Rocco, literary editor, The Economist (Man Booker International Prize administrator); Eve Smith (company secretary, the Booker Prize Foundation); Robert Topping; Topping & Company Booksellers.