US president to speak about reading Booker novels at the online ceremony, two days after his memoir is published
Barack Obama is taking a short break from defending the cause of democracy in the US to take part in this year’s Booker prize ceremony next week.
The former US president is one of several guests due to appear at the online winner’s ceremony for the literary prize on 19 November. Earlier this year, the Booker ceremony was moved from 17 November by two days, ostensibly to avoid a clash with the arrival of the first volume of Obama’s new memoirs, A Promised Land, which is set to be one of the biggest books of 2020.
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