Bukhman Philanthropies will finance the International Booker Prize, allowing the prize monies to be doubled to £100,000. Shortlisted titles will continue to win £5,000. The grant funds the prize for the next ten years and the award will be renamed the Bukhman International Booker Prize. The judges for the 2027 prize will be Patrick McGuinness, Caleb Azumah Nelson, Olga Ravn, and Tessa Thompson, along with chair Katie Kitamura.
Awards
“The Serpent in the Grove” Wins Commonwealth Prize
Jamir Nazir’s “The Serpent in the Grove” has won the overall Commonwealth Short Story Prize. After it was named the winner of the Caribbean region of the prize and was published in Granta, the story was accused of being written using AI. AI detectors also flagged two other regional winners as AI-generated. After a review, the Commonwealth Prize concluded that AI was not used in Nazir’s story or any other regional winners. Still, Granta has broken off its partnership with the prize and will no longer publish winning stories.