The International Booker Prize has announced the jury for the 2023 prize.

French-Moroccan novelist Leïla Slimani will chair the five-person panel. Slimani will be joined by Uilleam Blacker, one of Britain's leading literary translators from Ukrainian, Malaysian novelist Tan Twan Eng, New Yorker staff writer and critic Parul Sehgal and Frederick Studemann, literary editor of the Financial Times.

The annual award recognizes the best works of fiction from around the world that have been translated into English and published in the U.K. or Ireland. The £50,000 ($77,906 Cdn) grand prize is divided equally between writer and translator.

Slimani is the bestselling author of the novel The Perfect Nanny, which won France's most prestigious literary prize, the Prix Goncourt. She is the first Moroccan woman to win the prize. Slimani is known for her frequent commentary on women's rights and her campaign to help Moroccan women speak out against their country's unfair laws earned her the Simone de Beauvoir Prize for Women's Freedom. She also serves as French President Emmanuel Macron's personal representative for the promotion of French language and culture.

Blacker is a professor, author and translator. He has translated the work of many Ukrainian writers and his translations have appeared in places like The White Review, Modern Poetry in Translation and Words Without Borders. In 2022, he was Paul Celan Translation Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna.

Twan Eng is a former lawyer and author from Penang, Malaysia. His debut novel, The Gift of Rain, was longlisted for the 2007 Booker Prize and won both the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2012 and the Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction in 2013. His novels have been translated into more than 15 languages.

Sehgal is a writer and columnist who has lived in India, Hungary, the Philippines and the United States. Formerly a book critic and senior editor at The New York Times, she has won awards from the New York Press Club and the National Book Critics Circle for her writing.

Studemann joined the Financial Times in 1996 as Berlin correspondent and has held a number of roles since, including European news editor. He is a founding member of FT Deutschland and has lived in Dublin, Berlin, the Soviet Union, Greece and Austria.

"Led by Leïla Slimani, the five judges of the International Booker Prize 2023 bring a wealth of talent and global experience as writers, critics, translators – and most of all as readers," said Fiammetta Rocco, administrator of the International Booker Prize.

The panel will look for the best work of fiction translated to English published in the U.K. and Ireland between May 1, 2022 and Apr. 30, 2023. Authors of any nationality are eligible.

A longlist of 12 or 13 books will be announced in March 2023, with the shortlist of six books to follow in April. The winner will be revealed in May 2023.