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Ella Creamer

Sarah Jessica Parker joins judging panel of 2025 Booker prize

Sarah Jessica Parker.
‘Pretty optimistic about being able to do it’ … Sarah Jessica Parker. Photograph: Lucia Sabatelli/Action Press/REX/Shutterstock

Sarah Jessica Parker is on the judging panel of the 2025 Booker prize, it has been announced today.

Though on the face of it, the American actor might seem a surprising choice to judge the UK’s most prestigious prize for fiction, the Sex and the City star has established herself in the books industry in recent years. In 2016, she began serving as editorial director at SJP for Hogarth, an imprint of Penguin, before launching her own imprint, SJP Lit, in partnership with independent publisher Zando last year. She also shares book recommendations on her Instagram account.

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