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The 2023 Booker Prize longlist was announced on August 1. It features novels from seven countries across four continents, four Irish writers (making up a third of the longlist for the first time), four debut novelists – and ten authors longlisted for the Booker for the first time. The shortlist will be announced on September 21 and the winner, on November 26. The winning author will be awarded a cash prize of £50,000.
This year’s jury is chaired by novelist Esi Edugyan, twice-shortlisted for the Booker Prize and comprises writer and filmmaker Adjoa Andoh, poet and critic Mary Jean Chan, Shakespeare specialist James Shapiro, actor and writer Robert Webb. “All 13 novels cast new light on what it means to exist in our time, and they do so in original and thrilling ways,” said Edugyan about the longlist.