{"id":33162,"date":"2025-07-30T01:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T01:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/33162\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T01:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T01:39:10","slug":"sarah-jessica-parker-in-possible-conflict-of-interest-over-booker-longlisted-author-booker-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/33162\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Jessica Parker in possible conflict of interest over Booker longlisted author | Booker prize"},"content":{"rendered":"

An apparent conflict of interest has emerged over the Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker\u2019s judging of this year\u2019s Booker prize<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A production company run by the actor is reportedly in the process of developing a book written by Claire Adam, whose second novel, Love Forms<\/a>, appears on this year\u2019s longlist, announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Adam\u2019s debut novel, Golden Child, was published in the US in 2019 by SJP for Hogarth, the Penguin imprint for which Parker served as editorial director. It is being developed as a film by Parker\u2019s company Pretty Matches Productions and MA Productions.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is not uncommon for judges to have a connection to authors whose work has been submitted, so all judges have to declare any conflicts of interest at the outset,\u201d said Gaby Wood, chief executive of the Booker Prize Foundation.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs Sarah Jessica Parker<\/a> published Claire Adam\u2019s first novel, Golden Child, under her US imprint SJP for Hogarth, she declared the potential conflict to ensure transparency and only gave her view on the book after the other judges had shared theirs. No book can go through if it is supported by one judge alone, and Love Forms has earned its place on the Booker prize 2025 longlist through the active support of other judges on the panel.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an interview with the the Irish Times<\/a> published in June, Adam said that the film option \u201cwas bought by a small production company in LA (MA Productions), and we\u2019re all so thrilled that SJP\u2019s Pretty Matches Productions is on board as well. Film stuff moves slowly, there are a zillion obstacles, and her supporting the project is fantastic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pretty Matches Productions, founded in 2005, is also behind the Sex and the City sequel And Just Like That \u2026 and the HBO series Divorce, which Parker executive produced and starred in.<\/p>\n

In an interview with the Times<\/a> in June, Adam said that Parker \u201creads loads and so it was really fun to hang out with her. She\u2019s so lovely and sincere. She read the book cover to cover and got up at 5am to travel to meet me.\u201d Golden Child is published in the UK by Faber, and in 2019 won the Desmond Elliott prize.<\/p>\n

In June 2023, Parker launched SJP Lit, in partnership with the independent publisher Zando, which has published titles including These Days by Lucy Caldwell and The Story of the Forest by Linda Grant. Parker also shares book recommendations on her Instagram account.<\/p>\n

Parker was announced as a judge<\/a> of this year\u2019s Booker prize in December, with Wood saying at the time that she had \u201cenjoyed sharing book recommendations with Sarah Jessica, who has passionately supported contemporary fiction for many years\u201d.<\/p>\n

The 2025 judging panel is chaired by Roddy Doyle, and Parker\u2019s co-judges are Ay\u1ecd\u0300b\u00e1mi Ad\u00e9b\u00e1y\u1ecd\u0300, Kiley Reid and Chris Power.<\/p>\n

Adam was named as one of 13 longlisted authors, which include the former winner Kiran Desai, Tash Aw and David Szalay. The shortlist will be revealed on 23 September, with the winner announced on 10 November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An apparent conflict of interest has emerged over the Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker\u2019s judging…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[353,49,48,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-33162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}