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'New prize means that children will get to enjoy the best fiction'
Blackpool Gazette
|November 07, 2025
The Booker Prize has announced its most ambitious endeavour in 20 years with the launch of its first prize for children's fiction.
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The foundation will launch the literary award next year with the winner to be chosen by a combined panel of child and adult judges and awarded £50,000.
The Children's Booker Prize will see an author selected annually from 2027 to celebrate the best contemporary fiction for children aged eight to 12.
The foundation will also gift 30,000 copies of the shortlisted and winning books.
UK's Children's Laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce will be the inaugural chair of judges for 2027.
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