Johanna Thomas-Corr

Chief Literary Critic for The Times and Sunday Times

Johanna Thomas-Corr is director of the prize and the chief literary critic for The Times and Sunday Times and former literary editor of the Sunday Times. She has run the Sunday Times Young Writer Prize since 2023. Her articles and reviews have also appeared in The Observer, the
Financial Times, the New Statesman and the Evening Standard, and she regularly appears on Radio 4 and Times Radio. She has judged the Goldsmiths Prize for Fiction, The British Book Awards and The Sky Arts Prize for Literature.