2023 Booker Prize

The Booker Prize is an annual literary award given for the best English-language novel of the year published in either the United Kingdom or Ireland.

[5] With the 2023 longlisting for her work All the Little Bird-Hearts, Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow became the first person with autism to be nominated for a Booker prize.

[6] Regarding the 2023 shortlisted works, novelist and chair of the Booker Prize Judging Panel, Esi Edugyan stated "This year's novels offer a full range of lived experience, the books refuse easy categorization.

Edugyan also stated that the book's depiction of war and the migrant crisis "captures the social and political anxieties of our current moment.

"[10] The keynote speaker for the award ceremony was Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was detained in an Iranian prison for about six years and released in March 2022.