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Type: Judge

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.

Type: Judge

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.

Type: Judge

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.

Type: Content Page

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Type: Judge

Edmund de Waal

Edmund de Waal is an internationally acclaimed artist and writer

Type: Feature
Date: 08 Apr 2025

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