Sex and the City star says it is ‘the thrill of a life’ to be appointed to 2025 panel alongside Roddy Doyle, Kiley Reid and Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ to pick year’s best novel
Sex and the City star says it is ‘the thrill of a life’ to be appointed to 2025 panel alongside Roddy Doyle, Kiley Reid and Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ to pick year’s best novelParker said it was “the thrill of a life” and “a golden ticket” to be appointed to the 2025 panel, which will be chaired by former winner Paddy Doyle.
Instagram post describing the task of reading between 150 and 170 books – some of them several times – that the job requires. Parker said this week that she did not think her request would be taken seriously. “I would never be so bold.” she told the New York Times. Gaby Wood noted that the emotional intelligence of actors, developed through reading scripts gave them an ear for dialogue and an appreciation of how character is formed on the page, and is an asset to a judging panel. Justine Jordan, the Guardian’s fiction editor and herself a judge of the 2024 Booker Prize, noted that the ability to work collectively, learned on set and on stage, lent itself to the “collegiality” important to working toward joint decisions.
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