“It’s been an extraordinary seven months,” said Mary Beard, Chair of the Booker Prize 2026 judging panel, in a statement accompanying this year’s longlist. “The five Booker judges have each read 163 books, discussed and debated them, and sometimes re-read them, to whittle them down to a longlist of just 13.”
Classicist Mary Beard to Chair Judging Panel for the UK’s Booker Prize
Classicist Mary Beard will chair the judging panel for UK’s Booker Prizes.
UK: Booker Prize Names David Szalay Its 2025 Winner
David Szalay becomes the first Hungarian-British writer to win the Booker Prize for Fiction, having been shortlisted once before.
Australia’s Helen Garner Wins the UK’s £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize in Nonfiction
‘A fascinating insight into the creative reality of a writer’s life,’ Helen Garner’s win is a first for a diary.
The UK’s Booker Prizes Open a £50,000 Children’s Award
The Booker Prize Foundation says that its newly announced Children’s Prize has been three years in the planning.
Shortlist: The UK’s £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize in Nonfiction
Three of the six books shortlisted for the 2025 Baillie Gifford Prize in the United Kingdom are Penguin Random House releases.
The £30,000 FT Schroders Business Book 2025 Shortlist
Derek Thompson and Ezra Klein’s influential ‘Abundance’ makes the FT/Schroders shortlist, as does Eva Dou’s ‘House of Huawei.’
The £50,000 Booker Prize for Fiction’s 2025 Shortlist
Mature authors on ‘individuals trying to live with other people’: A rather grownup shortlist is announced by the Booker Prize.
Translation: First Winners of a New PEN-and-Booker Program
The newly opened ‘PEN Presents x International Booker Prize’ is designed to give visibility to the work of global majority translators.
Longlist: The £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction
The 12 longlisted titles of the 2025 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction are expected to be followed by a shortlist on October 2.