The Booker Prize is set to announce several rule changes on Wednesday, and now one expected adjustment includes opening the Commonwealth-only prize up to entries from US authors in some form. A weekend story in the Sunday Times reported such a change as fact, citing unnamed organizers as saying they “increasingly believe that excluding writers from America is anachronistic” and that “US writers must be allowed to compete to ensure the award’s global reputation.” Booker literary director Ion Trewin dismissed press reports as “incomplete” but confirmed in a statement “there are going to be some changes to the rules of […]
