Booker Prize ceremony will be star studded

The winner ceremony for the 2020 Booker Prize will have many famous names from the literary world, including Barack Obama, Kazuo Ishiguro, Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo.
The Booker Prize rescheduled their winner announcement this year to 19th November, as they didn't want their event to clash with Barack Obama's book launch on 17th November.
Normally the winner announcement and dinner is held at London’s Guildhall, but due the pandemic it will be online this year, broadcasted in partnership with the BBC from London’s Roundhouse.
In the ceremony author and ex-President of America Barack Obama, who is known to be an avid reader, will speak on what reading Booker Prize novels has meant to him. HRH The Duchess of Cornwall will talk on the significance of reading during this years pandemic.
Previous Booker Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro will be talk to host John Wilson about the experience of having won both The Booker Prize and The Nobel Prize in Literature. Last years joint Booker Prize winners Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo will talk about what they’ve done in their year as the winners. Wilson will also interview Everisto about the challenges fiction has faced this year.
All the authors of the shortlist- Diane Cook, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Avni Doshi, Maaza Mengiste, Douglas Stuart and Brandon Taylor will, of course, be part of the ceremony. They will be interviewed and their books will be brought to life with readings directed by The Old Vic Baylis Director Katy Rudd, have been performed and filmed on The Old Vic stage and will be showcased exclusively in the ceremony.
Then chair of judges, Margaret Busby, will be interviewed before the winner is announced.
To learn more about the winning books click here.