Judges of the 2016 Man Booker Prize for Fiction Announced
The judges of the 2016 Man Booker Prize for Fiction were announced on Monday, starting with chairwoman Amanda Foreman—biographer, historian and presenter of the BBC series, The Ascent of Woman.
Foreman's four fellow judges include Jon Day, critic and lecturer in English at King's College London; 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; and Olivia Williams, actor, currently starring in a National Theatre’s production of Harley Granville-Barker's Waste.
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 October 11, 2016 at an awards ceremony at London’s Guildhall, to be broadcast live by the BBC.
