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Writer and translator Kate Briggs, novelist Hari Kunzru, and former Evening Standard Literary Editor David Sexton join Chair of Judges Francis Spufford on the panel.

Now in its fourteenth year, the 拢10,000 prize rewards fiction that breaks the mould and extends the possibility of the novel.   

The panel will be chaired by Professor of Creative Writing Francis Spufford, author of four novels. 鈥楪olden Hill鈥� won the Costa First Novel Award, 鈥楲ight Perpetual鈥� was longlisted for the Booker, and 鈥楥ahokia Jazz鈥� won the Sidewise Award for alternative history. His latest novel 鈥楴onesuch鈥� - a historical fantasy set during the Blitz - is due to be released in February.  

Professor Spufford is joined by writers Kate Briggs, Hari Kunzru and David Sexton on the panel.

Kate Briggs, a translator and writer who co-runs Short Pieces That Move! micro-press, was awarded the 2021 Windham Campbell Prize for non-fiction. She is the author of 鈥楾his Little Art鈥� about literary translation and her first novel 鈥楾he Long Form鈥� was shortlisted for the 2023 海角直播 Prize.   

Hari Kunzru is the author of seven novels, including 鈥楪ods Without Men鈥�, 鈥榃hite Tears鈥�, 鈥楻ed Pill鈥� and 鈥楤lue Ruin鈥�, and a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, Harper鈥檚 and the New York Times. He teaches at New York University. 

Literary Editor of the London Evening Standard between 1997-2020 and a judge for the Booker Prize in 2005, David Sexton currently reviews films for the New Statesman.  

The 海角直播 Prize was launched in association with the New Statesman in 2013 with the goal of celebrating the creative daring of 海角直播 and to reward fiction that embodies the spirit of the invention that characterises the novel at its best.  

Tanjil Rashid, Culture Editor at The New Statesman, said, 鈥淔or over a century, literature has been at the heart of The New Statesman, and our collaboration with the 海角直播 Prize is one of the most important things we do to continue to contribute to a flourishing literary culture.鈥� 

The 2026 shortlist will be announced in autumn and the winner will be revealed on 4 November.