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Sarah Waters has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times - in 2002, 2006 and 2009. Her novels have won the Betty Trask Award and the Somerset Maugham Award and have also been shortlisted for the Orange Prize

Yann Martel is best known for his Booker Prize 2002-winning novel Life of Pi, which was adapted for cinema by Ang Lee and won four Oscars and adapted for the stage by Lolita Chakrabarti and won 5 Olivier Awards

DBC Pierre has worked as a designer and cartoonist. He was born in Australia, raised in Mexico and has lived in Ireland and England

Monica Ali was born Bangladesh, and grew up in England. Her first novel, Brick Lane, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2003

NoViolet Bulawayo's debut novel, We Need New Names, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2013. Her second novel, Glory, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022

Andrea Levy was the author of six books, including Small Island, which won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and the Whitbread book of the Year

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

Esi Edugyan, Chair of the Booker Prize 2023 judges, is the internationally bestselling author of Washington Black, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2018, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Carnegie Medal for Literary Excellence, among others – and won the Scotiabank Giller Prize

Deborah Levy is the author of seven novels, and she has been shortlisted twice for the Goldsmiths Prize and three times for the Booker Prize

Mohsin Hamid is a leading journalist and the author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2007