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Childrens' Booker Prize: Nurturing Future Storytellers
The new prize aims to increase children's reading enjoyment by awarding £50,000 annually to authors of outstanding fiction for ages eight to 12, judged by children and adults.
- Set to begin in 2026, the Booker Prize Foundation announced a Children’s Booker Prize to be awarded annually from 2027 for fiction targeting children aged eight to 12, published in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
- Responding to low reading rates, the Booker Prize Foundation says the prize will champion children’s fiction and gift 30,000 copies to young readers, as only 30% enjoy reading for pleasure.
- Children’s Laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce will chair a combined panel including two other adult judges and three child judges selecting a shortlist of eight books.
- Prize rules specify that shortlisted authors will each receive 2,500 and the winning author 50,000, to be shared with translators or illustrators at the February 2027 event.
- Backed by the AKO Foundation, the Booker Prize Foundation calls this its most ambitious endeavour in 20 years and the first major prize since 2005.
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The Foundation of the Booker Prize reveals that the first edition will be launched in the following year to "be able to celebrate the best contemporary fiction for children between 8 and 12 years of age, written or translated into English".
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