The Booker Prize 2025 Shortlist Announcement

Look back at the moment the judges of the Booker Prize 2025, Chair Roddy Doyle and his fellow panellists Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Sarah Jessica Parker, Chris Power, Kiley Reid and Booker Prize Foundation Chief Executive Gaby Wood, announced the shortlist live on stage. This clip is an edited section of the Booker Prize 2025 shortlist livestream and is provided courtesy of the Southbank Centre. --- The Booker Prizes on TikTok: tiktok.com/@thebookerprizes The Booker Prizes on Twitter: twitter.com/TheBookerPrizes The Booker Prizes on Facebook: facebook.com/TheBookerPrizes The Booker Prizes on Instagram: instagram.com/thebookerprizes The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK and Ireland. Previous winners include The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, The Promise by Damon Galgut, Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Bone People by Keri Hulme and many more. #BookerPrize #SouthbankCentre #BookTube #ReadingCommunity