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Booker Prize 2025: longlist announced

This year's Booker Prize longlist features authors representing four continents and nine countries.

30 Jul 2025 12:02

Paul Dalgarno

The Booker Prize 2025 longlist. Image: Yuki Sugiura for Booker Prize Foundation.

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The Booker Prize 2025 longlist. Image: Yuki Sugiura/ Booker Prize Foundation.

The 2025 Booker Prize longlist has been announced by this year’s judging panel, chaired by author and 1993 Booker Prize-winner Roddy Doyle.

The other judges for this year’s Prize are novelist Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀; award-winning actor, producer and publisher Sarah Jessica Parker; writer, broadcaster and literary critic Chris Power; and bestselling author Kiley Reid.

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Paul Dalgarno

Paul Dalgarno is author of the novels A Country of Eternal Light (2023) and Poly (2020); the memoir And You May Find Yourself (2015); and the creative non-fiction book Prudish Nation (2023). He is Head of Content at ArtsHub & ScreenHub. Insta: @dalgarnowrites