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Joan Bakewell
Dame Joan Bakewell has had a long career in the media, focusing on the arts and on attitudes towards sexuality and censorship – subjects that have sometimes cast her as a controversialist.
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Polly Devlin
Polly Devlin was born in rural Northern Ireland and started her journalistic career at 21 when she won a talent competition, with the prize being a job at Vogue magazine in London.
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Nick Barley
Nick Barley is a publisher, editor and festival organiser. He has been director and chief executive of the Edinburgh International Book Festival since 2009.
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Edmund de Waal
Edmund de Waal is an internationally acclaimed artist and writer
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Read extracts from the International Booker Prize 2025 shortlist
The International Booker Prize 2025 shortlist provides ‘a miraculous lens through which to view human experience, both the truly disturbing and the achingly beautiful’. Here we present an extract from each of the six shortlisted books
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Mary Jean Chan
Mary Jean Chan is a judge for the 2023 Booker Prize and is one of British poetry's fastest rising stars.
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Mariella Frostrup
Mariella Frostrup is a British journalist, broadcaster and author.
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Dotti Irving
Dotti Irving was Chief Executive of Four Culture.
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Azar Nafisi
Azar Nafisi is an Iranian-American writer and professor of English literature.