London: Britain’s most prestigious literary prize is getting a younger sibling. Booker Prize Foundation announced Friday it is setting up the Children’s Booker Prize alongside its existing awards for English-language and translated fiction.Like its sister prizes, the children’s award comes with a 50,000 ($67,000) purse. It will open for submissions early next year and the inaugural award will be handed out in 2027, with the winner picked by a jury of children and adults. Foundation chief executive Gaby Wood said the prize is aimed to inspire more young people to read and be “a seed from which we hope future generations of lifelong readers will grow.”
