To mark Black History Month, Esi Edugyan, Chair of the Booker Prize 2023 judges, joined National Prison Radio presenter Ali for a wide-ranging conversation about her 2018 Booker Prize-shortlisted novel Washington Black.
National Prison Radio is the world’s first national radio station for people in prison. It’s run by the Prison Radio Association, a charity based in HMP Brixton and HMP Styal. It broadcasts into prison cells across England and Wales 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Every evening at 11pm it broadcasts Books Unlocked, a programme produced in partnership with the National Literacy Trust and the Booker Prize Foundation which features readings from shortlisted titles.
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The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.
Previous winners include The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, The Promise by Damon Galgut, Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Bone People by Keri Hulme and many more.
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