Adjoa Andoh and Robert Webb to judge the Booker Prize in 2023
Actress Adjoa Andoh and comedian Robert Webb will be judging panelists for the Booker Awards in 2023.
Ridgerton Andoh, 59, and Peep Show actor, 50, both write and direct productions and serve as literary judges for other competitions.
Webb, known for his comic collaborations with David Mitchell, also judged the BBC’s Young Writers Award.
Andoh was one of the selectors of the AKO Caine Prize for writing about Africa in 2016.
Close
Robert Webb, right, with longtime collaborator David Mitchell (Ian West/PA)
She was also elected an honorary member of the Royal Literary Society earlier this year and is an Oxford visiting professor of contemporary theatre.
They will feature Canadian novelist Esi Edugyan, award-winning Hong Kong poet Mary Jean Chan, and American professor James Shapiro, who specializes in William Shakespeare.
All of the judges are on the Booker Prize panel for the first time, a spokesman for the annual awards told PA news agency.
“I am extremely excited to have the opportunity to immerse myself in the wonderful storytelling, with its lasting capacity for shock, suspense, destruction and consolation,” said President Edugyan.
She thinks the “experiences, perspectives, and careers of her fellow panelists are sure to make for a rich conversation.”
Gaby Wood, director of the Booker Prize Foundation, said Edugyan’s two Booker shortlisted novels, Washington Black and Half Blood Blues, are “great entertainment and quintessentially re-enacted acts. economy”.
Close
The Queen Consort presents the trophy to Shehan Karunatilaka, Booker Prize 2022 winner (David Parry/PA)
She added: “I am convinced that her sharpness and composure will bring out the best in this glorious group.”
Washington Black Coming of Age Story, set on a slave plantation, was previously announced as an upcoming Disney and Hulu series in 2023, starring Black Panther actor Sterling K. Brown and co-produced by Edugyan.
Video of the day
The 2023 panel will select books published between 1 October 2022 and 30 September 2023 to win the Booker Prize and £50,000.
This year, Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka took home the literary prize with her novel The Seven Moons Of Maali Almeida, a dark murder mystery manga set in the Sri Lankan Civil War.
His independent UK publisher, Sort of Books, has since announced in October republished more than 270,000 copies of his books.
https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/adjoa-andoh-and-robert-webb-to-judge-booker-prize-in-2023-42215471.html Adjoa Andoh and Robert Webb to judge the Booker Prize in 2023