Broadcaster Eleanor Wachtel talks about how British books have a different smell than North American ones and the importance of intuition when selecting books for the longlist
Get to know the International Booker Prize 2024 judges
Get to know the International Booker Prize 2024 judges
Discover more about the judges of the International Booker Prize 2024 – their reading habits, their favourite works of translated fiction and what they are hoping to find among this year's submissions
The panel is chaired by esteemed writer and broadcaster Eleanor Wachtel and includes award-winning poet Natalie Diaz; Booker Prize-shortlisted novelist Romesh Gunesekera; ground-breaking visual artist William Kentridge; and acclaimed writer, editor and translator Aaron Robertson. The 2024 judging panel will be looking for the best work of fiction translated into English, selected from entries published in the UK or Ireland between May 1, 2023 and April 30, 2024.
