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British Indian musician appointed as Booker Prize 2024 judge
Musician Nitin Sawhney joined the five-member panel of Booker Prize 2024 on December 14
Nitin Sawhney / Credit – The Booker Prizes/Suki Dhanda
Indian-origin British musician, Nitin Sawhney was announced as the Booker Prize 2024 judge on December 14.
He along with chair of the panel, author Edmund de Waal, novelist Sara Collins, Guardian fiction editor Justine Jordan, and writer and professor Yiyun Li formed the five-member judging panel.
Together they will glaze through long-form fiction work by writers of any nationality, written in English and published in the UK and/or Ireland between October 1, 2023, and September 30, 2024. The winner announcement will follow in November 2024.
“We are delighted to reveal the #BookerPrize2024 judging panel. Edmund de Waal will act as chair of judges and will be joined by Sara Collins (@mrsjaneymac), Justine Jordan (@justine_jordan), Yiyun Li and Nitin Sawhney (@thenitinsawhney)” the Booker Prizes wrote in a post on X. Sawhney said he was “honoured to be a @TheBookerPrizes judge for 2024.”
In another post, he shared, “The thought of spending my insomnia hours buried in over 150 books over the next few months is a welcome one. The world seems to have lost its way as well as its humanity… I want to be reminded of beautiful minds and remember that words are not always toxic vessels of hate.”
Sawhney is a producer, songwriter, touring artist, club DJ, multi-instrumentalist, and composer for theater, dance, video games, and orchestras. He has recorded multiple albums and over 70 film and TV scores, that includes the adaptations of the 1981 Booker Prize winner Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie and The Namesake by Booker-shortlisted novelist Jhumpa Lahiri, as well as Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle, Human Planet, What’s Love Got To Do With It, and a current project for Disney.
Sawhney’s latest album is titled ‘IDENTITY’ for Warner Music, that released in October 2023. He also celebrated the 30-year anniversary of the release of his first album titled ‘Spirit Dance’ in September 2023. He also performed a show at the world’s most famous stage, the Royal Albert Hall, in October.
In September, Sawhney also teamed up with the Department of Music and Design Arts at the University of Huddersfield in the UK, to offer a full and partial fee waivers for PhD studies for UK, EU, and international PhD students, engaged in research on any aspect of popular music.
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