The Booker Prize 2023

The shortlist has been announced! It features six books by authors never previously shortlisted, including two debuts.

Novelist Esi Edugyan, twice-shortlisted for the Booker Prize, is the chair of the 2023 judging panel and is joined by actor, writer and director Adjoa Andoh; poet, lecturer, editor and critic Mary Jean Chan; Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and Shakespeare specialist James Shapiro; and actor and writer Robert Webb. Read the full release at the Booker Prize web site.