Two U.S.-Born Judges Added to Man Booker Prize Panel

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Next year, when the Man Booker Prize begins allowing English-language authors of any nationality to compete for the first time, the judging panel will include two people who were born in the U.S., "a figure which matches the number of American Booker judges over the past 10 years," the Guardian reported.

Chair of the judges A.C. Grayling is joined on the panel by critic Sarah Churchwell, who was born in Illinois and is a professor of American literature at the University of East Anglia; and Erica Wagner, the former literary editor of the Times who was born in New York.

The panel also includes English professor Jonathan Bate, neuroscientist Daniel Glaser and Alastair Niven, former director of literature at both the arts council and the British Council