We’re delighted to reveal the Booker Prize 2026 judging panel. Mary Beard, celebrated classicist, writer and broadcaster, will act as Chair and is joined by award-winning poet, writer and educator Raymond Antrobus; musician, writer and broadcaster Jarvis Cocker; editor and critic Rebecca Liu and Booker Prize-shortlisted novelist, poet and essayist Patricia Lockwood.  Find out more: thebookerprizes.com/BP2026 --- The Booker Prizes on TikTok: tiktok.com/@thebookerprizes The Booker Prizes on Twitter: twitter.com/TheBookerPrizes The Booker Prizes on Facebook: facebook.com/TheBookerPrizes The Booker Prizes on Instagram: instagram.com/thebookerprizes The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK and Ireland. P...