Sara Collins is one of the judges who will be selecting the winner of the Booker Prize 2024. The announcement was made on Thursday, December 14, 2023.
The Booker Prize for Fiction, founded in 1969, is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the United Kingdom. Some of the previous winners of African descent have been Marlon James, Nadine Gordimer, J. M. Coetzee, Ben Okri, Bernadine Evaristo, and Damon Galgut.
The jury for 2024 was made public on Thursday with award-winning author, literary critic, screenwriter, and broadcaster Sara Collins on the panel. Collins follows in the footsteps of other writers of African descent jury members like Esi Edugyan, Adjoa Andoh, Alain Mabanckou, Margaret Busby, and Lemn Sissay.
Sara Collins is the author of The Confessions of Frannie Langton, which won the Costa First Novel Award in 2019, became a Times bestseller, was translated into more than 15 languages, and was broadcast as a four-part television drama on ITV in December 2022. Sara studied law at the London School of Economics before qualifying as a barrister in 1994. She worked as a lawyer for 17 years before obtaining a Master’s degree in creative writing with distinction from Cambridge University in 2016, where she was the recipient of the Michael Holroyd Prize. Sara is also a literary critic, screenwriter, and broadcaster. She has been a frequent contributor and guest host on BBC Radio 4 and is a co-host of the Graham Norton Book Club Podcast on Audible.
Other members of the jury are Edmund de Waal (Chair), Yiyun Li, Nitin Sawhney, and Justine Jordan.
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