# @thebookerprizes on YouTube

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- **Original URL:** https://youtube.com/watch?v=6kwbkBAx3-o
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/64750525-thebookerprizes-youtube
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- **Posted:** 2026-04-28T07:04:24.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Booker Prizes (@thebookerprizes) — https://gondola.cc/thebookerprizes

## Caption

We’re delighted to reveal the judging panel for the inaugural Children's Booker Prize, supported by AKO Foundation.

Frank Cottrell-Boyce, the multi-award-winning children’s book author, screenwriter and current Waterstones Children’s Laureate, will act as Chair of judges and is joined by the acclaimed actor, writer and comedian Lolly Adefope and award-winning children’s bookseller and owner of the Children’s Bookshop in Muswell Hill, Sanchita Basu De Sarkar. 

The Children's Booker Prize is a new annual prize that will celebrate the best contemporary fiction for children aged eight to 12 years old, written in or translated into English and published in the UK and/or Ireland. The first winner will be announced on 2 February 2027.

Find out more at thebookerprizes.com/children

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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.

Previous winners include The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, The Promise by Damon Galgut, Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Bone People by Keri Hulme and many more.

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| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
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| The Booker Prizes | @thebookerprizes | https://gondola.cc/thebookerprizes | Awards Organization |

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