The shortlist for this year’s International Booker Prize, worth £50,000 (AU$107,528), has now been announced. The 2025 judging panel includes Max Porter (chair), Caleb Femi, Sana Goyal, Anton Hur and Beth Orton.
Chosen from a longlist of 16 from a total submission pool of 154 books, the shortlist for this year’s prize includes:
For the first time in the Prize’s history, all six shortlisted books have been published by independent publishers.
Thuy On is the Reviews and Literary Editor of ArtsHub and an arts journalist, critic and poet who’s written for a range of publications including The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Sydney Review of Books, The Australian, The Age/SMH and Australian Book Review. She was the Books Editor of The Big Issue for 8 years and a former Melbourne theatre critic correspondent for The Australian.
She has three collections of poetry published by the University of Western Australian Press (UWAP): Turbulence (2020), Decadence (2022) and Essence (2025).
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