The Folio Prize launches new website feature: From the Academy

From Monday 8 July, in the build-up to the announcement of the inaugural panel of judges, the Folio Prize website will feature a daily offering from a member of the prize Academy. Each piece will celebrate books that could have been worthy winners of the Folio Prize had it existed in the past. The series will launch with contributions from Philip Pullman, Rachel Cooke, Brett Easton Ellis and Julie Myerson. Which books would you choose?

The panel of judges for the inaugural Folio Prize will be announced on Tuesday 16 July.

Suzy Lucas, Administrator, The Folio Prize, says:

“One of the chief ambitions of The Folio Prize is to give people the opportunity to find great books that might otherwise lie unread. Our Academicians’ choices do exactly that - they date from 179AD to the present day and take in all manner of forms, styles and preoccupations. We challenge anyone not to want to read them all whether they be undiscovered or simply worth rediscovering.”