# @thebookerprizes on YouTube

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- **Original URL:** https://youtube.com/watch?v=DJQmfjh19k8
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- **Posted:** 2026-10-08T13:04:05.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Booker Prizes (@thebookerprizes) — https://gondola.cc/thebookerprizes

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Watch Maxine Peake read from The Things We Never Say, the Booker Prize 2026-shortlisted book by Elizabeth Strout.

The story so far: Artie Dam is a man with a secret. He spends his days teaching history to high schoolers, expanding their young minds, correcting their casual cruelties, and lending a kind word to those who need it most. He goes to holiday parties with his wife of three decades, makes small talk with neighbours, and, on weekends, takes his sailboat out on the beautiful Massachusetts Bay. He is, by all appearances, present and alive. But inside, Artie is plagued by feelings of isolation. He looks out at a world gone mad – at himself and the people around him – and turns a question over and over in his mind: how is it that we know so little about one another, even those closest to us?

Discover the book: https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/the-things-we-never-say

Directed by Holly Blakey and produced in partnership with Park Pictures.

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Director: Holly Blakey
Executive Producer: Shelley Jones, Nat Baring
Production Company: Park Pictures
Booker Prizes team: Indira Birnie, Jon Davenport
Producer: Masha Thorpe
Line Producer: Lily Ashton
Director's Assistant: Sharia Johnson
First Assistant Director: Joe Mulvihill
Director of Photography: Sam Finney
Sound Recordist: Charlie Hinde
Production Design: Elizabeth El-Kadhi
Costume Designer: Jack Clements
Hair & Make-up Artist: Hannah Eccleston
Post House: Avenues Studio
Post Producer: Zeena Al-Faham
Editor: Jean-Philippe Blunt
Sound Mixer and Designer: Ines Adriana
Colour House: Pundersons Gardens
Colourist: John O'Riordan
Colour EP: Tom Viney
Colour Producer: Katie Savva

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The Booker Prize and the International Booker Prize are two of the world’s most significant and influential awards for a single book. The prizes recognise exceptional works of fiction and elevate the voices of nominated authors and translators by bringing their work to a global readership. The Children’s Booker Prize, which will launch in 2026 and be awarded annually from 2027, will celebrate the best contemporary fiction for children aged eight to 12 years old, written in or translated into English. 

We are driven by a simple belief that great fiction not only brings joy to millions, it has the power to change the way we think about the world and to connect people across cultures and generations. Our aim is to foster a love of reading, and to support writers and readers of the future.

Recent winners include; Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and translated by Lin King, Flesh by David Szalay, Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq and translated by Deepa Bhasthi and Orbital by Samantha Harvey. 

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| The Booker Prizes | @thebookerprizes | https://gondola.cc/thebookerprizes | Awards Organization |

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