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The judging panel, which is chaired by historian Maya Jasanoff and features former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, said Sir Kazuo’s latest novel Klara And The Sun offered a “genuinely innocent, ego-less perspective on the strange behaviour of humans obsessed and wounded by power, status and fear”.