Sir Peter Stothard is announced as the chair of the judges for the 2012 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, the leading literary prize in the English language. He will lead a panel of five judges in choosing the best book of the year.
Peter Stothard comments: ‘It is a great honour and a challenge to chair the Man Booker judges. I have admired the prize for all my editing and writing life – and look forward hugely to a year as a reader and critic within its great traditions.’Peter Stothard is an established figure in the literary world. He is Editor of the Times Literary Supplement and he was previously Editor of The Times (1992-2002). He is also the author of two volumes of diaries: On the Spartacus Road, A Spectacular Journey Through Ancient Italy (2010), and Thirty Days, A Month at the Heart of Blair's War (2003).
Peter was chair of the judges for The Forward Poetry Prize in 2003 and a judge of the Whitbread Book of the Year in 1997. He is an honorary fellow of Trinity College, Oxford and President of the Classical Association. He is currently completing a book set in Alexandria in the first century BC and in the final days before the Arab Spring. He is married to the novelist and travel writer Sally Emerson.
The longlist for the 2012 Man Booker Prize, ‘The Booker Dozen’ – the 12 or 13 titles under serious consideration for the prize - will be announced in July 2012. The shortlist of six titles will be announced in September. The winner of the 2012 Man Booker Prize will be announced at London’s Guildhall at an awards ceremony on 16 October 2012.
The winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, The Sense of An Ending by Julian Barnes (Jonathan Cape, Random House), was announced last month and is already one of the fastest selling winners since records began.
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