Actress Sarah Parker Joins Booker Prize 2025 Jury

Sarah Jessica Parker, a famous actress from Hollywood and the star of “Sex and the City,” will serve as a judge for the prestigious Booker Prize’s 2025 panel, the organisers announced on Tuesday.

Irish author Roddy Doyle, who wrote “Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha,” won the 1993 literary award for fiction.

Ayobami Adebayo, a writer and literary critic from Nigeria, Chris Power, Chris Power, and Kiley Reid, a writer and author from America, will join Parker, who played Carrie Bradshaw in the TV series “Sex and the City.”

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The 59-year-old actress has recently quietly established herself in the publishing industry, winning one Emmy and four Golden Globes.

She was editorial director of a subsidiary of publishing house Penguin, before launching her own literary imprint, SJP Lit, in 2023, in partnership with an independent publisher.

The chance to be part of the jury is “very daunting” but also “the thrill of a life”, Parker told The New York Times.

“I think of judges as academics, learned, experienced in ways I’m just not. I didn’t pursue higher education. I don’t have any degrees”, the star added.

Gaby Wood, the booker prize foundation’s chief executive, said Parker has “passionately supported contemporary fiction for many years.”

“The 2025 judges form a jury of creative peers like no other”, Wood added.

Submissions for the 2025 Bookers can already be sent by authors and publishers. In September, a longlist of 12 or 13 books will be reduced to the final twelve, with announcing the winner in November 2025.

The Booker Prize, established in 1969, recognizes the “best sustained work of fiction written in English” annually and serves as a resource for lesser-known authors.

It has contributed to the success of literary greats including Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood, and even the 2024 literature Nobel Prize winner Han Kang, who won the Booker in 2016 with “The Vegetarian”.

The winner in this year’s women-dominated pool was British writer Samantha Harvey for her novel “Orbital”.

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