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Type: Judge

Leanne Shapton

Leanne Shapton is a Canadian artist, writer and graphic novelist.

Type: Author

Lewis DeSoto

Lewis DeSoto was born in South Africa and immigrated to Canada as a teenager in the 1960s. There, he trained as a painter rather than a writer and remains more active with the brush than the pen

Type: Author

Steve Toltz

Steve Toltz was born in Sydney. A Fraction of the Whole (2008) was his first book, followed by Quicksand (2015)

Type: Author

James Hamilton-Paterson

James Hamilton-Paterson is often described as a literary loner – a refined prose stylist who, although English-born, has spent most of his life outside the mainstream in the Philippines and Tuscany

Type: Author

Stanley Middleton

Stanley Middleton was born in Bulwell, Nottinghamshire. He published his first novel, A Short Answer, in 1958

Type: Author

David Storey

David Storey was born in Wakefield, England. He studied at the Slade School of Art, before a writing career that yielded 15 plays and 11 novels

Type: Author

Bernardine Evaristo

Bernardine Evaristo is an Anglo-Nigerian author of books of fiction and verse. Her novel Girl, Woman, Other won the Booker Prize 2019

Type: Author

Sophie Mackintosh

Sophie Mackintosh is a London-based writer from Wales

Type: Author

Eleanor Catton

Eleanor Catton won the Booker Prize in 2013. She was born in Canada and raised in New Zealand. She is the author of two internationally celebrated novels: The Rehearsal and The Luminaries

Type: Author

Olga Tokarczuk

Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk is a Polish writer and activist, and one of the most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation in Poland