The Booker Prize Foundation has announced the Children’s Booker Prize.
It is a new £50,000 award for children’s fiction supported by the AKO Foundation.
The prize will honour the best fiction for children aged eight to twelve, written in or translated into English, and published in the United Kingdom (UK) or Ireland.
It will launch in 2026 and be awarded annually from 2027, marking the foundation’s first new prize in twenty years.