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Jarvis Cocker on judging the Booker prize: ‘It’s just like being in a band’

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The singer on how being in Pulp prepared him for judging a literary prize, reading 163 books while on tour, and feeling like the odd one out on the panel • M John Harrison becomes the first science…

The Guardian United Kingdom · 10 November 2026

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