Man Booker Prize judges announced
The Guardian has the list of this year’s judges for the Man Booker Prize.
The director of the London School of Economics, Howard Davies, will chair the judges of the 39th Man Booker prize.
He will be joined on the panel for the 2007 award by the poet Wendy Cope, the journalist and novelist Giles Foden, the biographer Ruth Scurr and the actor Imogen Stubbs.
Cope, by the way, is the author of the 1986 collection Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis (Faber and Faber). Here is the the title poem from that collection, in total:
It was a dream I had last week.
And some kind of record seemed vital.
I knew it wouldn’t be much of a poem
But I love the title.
What’s the connection? Well, Kingsley Amis did win the Booker that same year for The Old Devils….
(No, we just really like that poem.)
