Caleb Femi. Photo/Caleb Oluwafemi

Caleb Femi on International Booker Prize 2025 jury

Caleb Femi is on the International Booker Prize 2025 jury; the winner will be announced on April 8, 2025.

The International Booker Prize is awarded annually for the finest single work of fiction from around the world translated into English and published in the UK and/or Ireland. Founded as the Man Booker Prize in 2004, previous African winners include David Diop and Chinua Achebe with Maryse Conde, GauZ’, and Itamar Vieira making the shortlist, and Fiston Mwanza Mujila, José Eduardo Agualusa, Alain Mabanckou, and Ngugi Wa Thiong’o making the longlist in previous years.

The jury for 2024 with some of the most respected people in English writing working today was announced on July 12, 2024. It included writer, director, and photographer Caleb Femi who featured in the Dazed 100 list of the next generation shaping youth culture. Femi’s award-winning debut poetry collection, Poor, was published in 2020 by Penguin Press and won the Forward Prize for best first collection in 2021. It was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, longlisted for the Jhalak Prize, was selected as a Book of the Year by the New Statesman, Financial Times, Guardian, Observer, and BBC, and was added to AQA’s English Literature GCSE syllabus in the UK in 2022.

Caleb Femi joins other former jury members in Chika Unigwe, Petina Gappah, Leïla Slimani, Aida Edemariam and Olivette Otele.

The International Booker Prize 2025 longlist of 12 or 13 books will be announced on Tuesday, February 25, and the shortlist of six books on Tuesday, April 8. The winning title will be announced at a ceremony at London’s Tate Modern on Tuesday, May 20.

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