Booker Prize launches new award for children's fiction
Summary
The Booker Prize organizers have started a new award for children's fiction, called the Children's Booker Prize. This prize will celebrate the best fiction for children aged 8 to 12 and will begin in 2026, with the first award in 2027. Authors from around the world can enter, and both adults and children will help judge the entries.Key Facts
- The Children's Booker Prize will celebrate children's fiction for ages 8 to 12.
- It will launch in 2026, with the first award given out in 2027.
- The judging panel will include adults and children.
- UK Children's Laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce will be the first chair of judges.
- Each finalist will receive £2,500, and the winner will earn £50,000.
- At least 30,000 copies of the winners' books will be given to children.
- The prize is open to books written or translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland.
- The Booker Prize Foundation aims to inspire more young people to read with this award.
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