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Franco-Moroccan Author Leïla Slimani to Chair 2023 International Booker Prize Jury
Tuesday 23 August 2022, by
The Franco-Moroccan novelist Leïla Slimani will chair the jury of the next edition of the International Booker Prize. This is a literary prize awarded annually to a book translated into English and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland.
Leïla Slimani will be joined by other novelists and translators who will be tasked with determining the best work of translated fiction, selected from works published in the United Kingdom or Ireland between May 1, 2022 and April 30, 2023.
Although applications are already open, the list of twelve pre-selected books will not be published until March 2023, before a second selection of six books in April is made as the final shortlist. The grand winner of this prestigious prize will be announced at a ceremony scheduled for May.
The president of the 2023 jury of the International Booker Prize was born in 1981 in Rabat. She is a Franco-Moroccan journalist and writer, a graduate of the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris, and has been a contributor to the magazine Jeune Afrique since 2008 as a specialist in North African issues. The author of several novels, including Chanson douce, which won the Prix Goncourt in 2016 as well as the Grand Prix des lectrices Elle in 2017, she was appointed personal representative of President Emmanuel Macron for the Francophonie that same year.