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Phil Miller
Val McDermid is Booker judge
THE judges of the 2018 Man Booker Prize, the prestigious fiction prize, have been announced.
The 50th anniversary award jury is chaired by the philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah.
He will be joined by Scottish crime writer Val McDermid, the critic Leo Robson, the writer and critic Jacqueline Rose and the artist and graphic novelist Leanne Shapton.
Gaby Wood, Literary Director of the Booker Prize Foundation, says: “This year’s judging panel is not only stellar in its distinction, its members have a stunningly broad range of tastes and enthusiasms too.
