The
panel of five is chaired by Amanda Foreman, biographer, historian and presenter
of the highly acclaimed recent BBC series, The Ascent of Woman. Foreman
judged the prize in 2012, under the chairmanship of Sir Peter Stothard. Her
four fellow judges are a critic, a novelist, a poet and an actor.
The
2016 panel is: Amanda Foreman (Chair), award-winning historian and
internationally bestselling author of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire; Jon
Day, Critic and Lecturer in English at King's College London, specialising
in modernist fiction; Abdulrazak Gurnah, Booker Prize-shortlisted
novelist and Professor of English and Postcolonial Literatures at the
University of Kent; David Harsent, poet and Professor of Creative
Writing at the University of Roehampton, winner of 2014 T.S. Eliot prize;
Olivia Williams, actor, currently starring in a National Theatre’s
production of Harley Granville-Barker's Waste.
2016 is the 48th year of the prize, which
was launched in 1969. The 2016 judging panel will be looking for the best novel
of the year, selected from entries published in the UK between 1 October 2015
and 30 September 2016.
The ‘Man Booker Dozen’ of 12 or 13 books will be
announced in late July 2016 and the shortlist of six books in early September
2016. The winner of the 2016 Man Booker Prize for Fiction will be announced on
11 October 2016 at an awards ceremony at London’s Guildhall, broadcast live by
the BBC.
The judges will read submissions both in hard copy and
using e-readers.
The Man Booker Prize is sponsored by Man Group, one of
the world’s largest independent alternative investment managers.
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