The 2027 Bukhman International Booker Prize committee has been announced. The panel includes the writer, translator and Oxford Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Patrick McGuinness. He will be joined by Caleb Azumah Nelson, Olga Ravn, Tessa Thompson, and Katie Kitamura.

Professor McGuinness said "It's a huge honour to be judging this year's International Booker. I think translation is one of the great arts as well as one of the great joiners of people, and I love teaching it, reading it, and occasionally doing it. I'm building extra shelf space in my study and in my head for the books as they arrive..."

Professor McGuinness's first novel, The Last Hundred Days, was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2011. His second novel, Throw Me to the Wolves, was published in 2019 and won the Encore Prize. He is an accomplished translator, having translated works by Stéphane Mallarmé, Hélène Dorion, Guillaume Apollinaire (from French), Jorge Manrique (from Spanish) and Andreu Vidal (from Catalan). His most recent translation, with Stephen Romer, of Gilles Ortlieb’s Selected Poems, won the 2025 Scott Moncrieff Prize for translation.