LONDON– Britain’s most distinguished literary reward is obtaining a more youthful brother or sister.
The Booker Prize Structure introduced Friday that it is establishing the Kid’s Booker Reward along with its existing honors for English-language and converted fiction.
Like its sibling rewards, the kids’s honor features a 50,000 extra pound ($ 67,000) handbag.
The reward will certainly open up for entries early following year and the inaugural honor will certainly be distributed in 2027, with the victor chosen by a court of kids and grownups led by author Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Britain’s existing kids’s laureate.
Cottrell-Boyce, whose publications consist of the Carnegie Medal-winning “Millions,” claimed he was “humming” concerning the possibility.
” It’s mosting likely to be– as they claim– outright scenes therein. Allow the shouting commence,” he claimed.
Moneyed by the arts, atmosphere and education and learning charity AKO Structure, the brand-new honor will certainly be open to fiction from any kind of nation targeted at kids matured 8 to 12, either composed in English or converted, and released in the U.K. or Ireland.
Booker Reward Structure President Gaby Timber claimed the reward intended to motivate even more youths to check out and be “a seed where we wish future generations of long-lasting viewers will certainly expand.”
The initial Booker Reward was established in 1969 and has actually developed an online reputation for changing authors’ professions. Its victors have actually consisted of Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood, Ian McEwan, Arundhati Roy and Hilary Mantel.
This year’s victor will certainly be introduced on Nov. 10.
The International Booker Prize was developed in 2005 as a life time success honor. Considering that 2016 it has actually mosted likely to a solitary job of converted fiction, with the cash prize split in between writer and translator. Previous victors consist of Nobel literature laureates Olga Tokarczuk of Poland and Han Kang of South Korea.
