The 2023 Booker Prize Shortlist
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.
The judges are looking for the best work of long-form fiction, written in English, selected from entries published in the UK and Ireland between October 1 2022 and September 30 2023.
The shortlist of six books was announced on September 21, 2023, at the National Portrait Gallery in London. The winner of the £50,000 prize will be announced at an event at Old Billingsgate, London, on November 26, 2023
