Petina Gappah has been selected as one of the judges for the International Booker Prize 2022. This year’s panel will be chaired by the translator, Frank Wynne. The panel consists of author and academic Merve Emre; writer and lawyer Petina Gappah; TV presenter, writer and actor Mel Giedroyc; and translator and author Jeremy Tiang.
The Booker Prize for Fiction recognizes the best original novel written in the English language and published in the United Kingdom. Previous winners include Nadine Gordimer, J. M. Coetzee, Ben Okri, and Bernadine Evaristo.
Frank Wynne, Chair of the 2021 International Booker Prize judges, said:
‘There is no art more intimate than fiction, no connection more electrifying than that between writer and reader. Among an author’s most privileged, most attentive readers are the translators tasked with bringing a work from one language to another. To this day, I am in awe of the strange magic performed by people I now consider colleagues, and friends. I feel excited and daunted to set out on this global journey with such a distinguished group of judges, eager to discover what countries we will visit, what voices we will hear, what stories we will be told. I can imagine no better way to spend a year than in the company of some of the finest writers and their translators from around the globe.’
Petina Gappah is the author of the short story collections An Elegy For Easterly (2009) and Rotten Row (2016) and the novels The Book of Memory (2015) and Out of Darkness, Shining Light (2019).
The 2022 International Booker Prize longlist will be announced in March 2022. A shortlist of six books will be announced in April. The winners will be announced in May.
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