Jarvis Cocker on judging the Booker prize: It is just like being in a band

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According to the Guardian on November 10, 2026, Jarvis Cocker, the frontman of the band Pulp, compared his experience of judging the Booker Prize to being in a band. Cocker served on the judging panel chaired by Mary Beard, alongside writers Patricia Lockwood, Raymond Antrobus, and Rebecca Liu. He noted that he read 163 eligible novels on his iPad while on tour, which helped him remain objective without being influenced by book covers. Ultimately, the panel selected The End of Everything by M John Harrison as the winner, making him the first science fiction author to win the Booker Prize.