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Philosopher A C Grayling will chair the judging panel for this year's Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
Also judging are Erica Wagner, formerly literary editor at the Times; Jonathan Bate, Professor of English Literature at Oxford; biographer Sarah Churchwell, UEA’s Professor of American Literature; neuroscientist Dr Daniel Glaser; and Dr Alastair Niven, former director of Literature at the British Council and the Arts Council.
2014 marks the first year of the Man Booker Prize's new rules, which mean it is open to writers of any nationality, writing originally in English, for novels published in the UK by an established imprint between 1st October 2013 and 30th September 2014. For this inaugural year, the trustees have decided that the judging panel will increase from five to six.
Grayling commented on behalf of the judging panel: 'The Man Booker prize has become an even bigger entity this year . . . We welcome that challenge, and are now launching ourselves into it with relish".
The panel consists of three new judges and three who have previously judged the prize—Niven in 1994, Wagner in 2002 and Grayling in 2003. The judges’ mission remains the same as in previous years, to select the finest fiction of the year, the Prize said.
The judges will read submissions both in hard copy and using iPad Airs donated by Apple.
The "Man Booker Dozen" of 12 or 13 books will be announced in late July 2014 and the shortlist of six books in early September 2014. The winner of the 2014 Man Booker Prize for Fiction will be announced on 14 October 2014.
2014 is the 46th year of the prize. The 2013 winner, Eleanor Catton, made history as the youngest author to win the prize, at 28, with her novel The Luminaries (Granta).