This year’s Booker Prize shortlist has been announced with a list that favours women and writers from diverse backgrounds.
One of this year’s judges, Sameet Rahim, said the panel judged books on a number of criteria but he was also looking for technical aspects of writing: ‘We were looking for books that really told a story and grabbed us, we were looking for originality as well. And personally I was also looking for technical mastery and at the level of the sentence it needed to be really, really superb.’
