International
IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2003
Judging Panel
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Morgan
Llywelyn
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Morgan
Llywelyn is an award-winning novelist, well-known for her historical novels
about Ireland and the Celtic peoples including the international best-seller
Lion of Ireland. Five of her novels have been optioned for film.
Her work also includes a biography of Xerxes of Persia and four books
for children. Among her literary awards are the Washington D.C. Cultural
Achievement Award, The Best Novel of the Year Award (PENWoman International),
Poetry in Prose Award (Galician Society), Book of the Year for Young Adults
(The American Libraries Association), the Saint Brendan Medal (the Brendan
Society) and two Bisto Awards for her novels for children. American, of
Irish descent, she now lives in Ireland.
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Deirdre
Madden
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Deirdre
Madden is an acclaimed novelist from Northern Ireland. Her novels include
The Birds of the Innocent Wood, for which she was awarded the Somerset
Maugham Prize, Remembering Light and Stone, Nothing is Black
and One By One in the Darkness, which was shortlisted for the Orange
Prize in 1997. She was writer-in-residence in University College Cork
in 1994 and Writer Fellow in Trinity College, Dublin in 1997. She has
travelled widely in Europe and has spent extended periods of time in both
France and Italy. Authenticity, her latest book, was published
in August 2002.
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Amritjit
Singh
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Amritjit
Singh, Professor of English at Rhode Island College, is a freelance writer,
editor, translator and book reviewer. In 2002, he was a Visiting Fulbright
Professor at the JFK Institute of North American Studies at Freie University,
Berlin. He has served as President, MELUS (The Society for the Study of
Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States), 1994-1997 and serves currently
as President of both the South Asian Literary Association (SALA) and the
US Chapter of ACLALS (Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language
Studies). His poems, reviews, translations and op-ed pieces have appeared
in many journals. He has authored and co-edited over a dozen books, including
India: An Anthology of Contemporary Writing (1983), Memory,
Narrative and Identity: New Essays in Ethnic American Literatures
(1994) and Wallace Thurman: A Harlem Renaaissance Reader (2002).
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Ilan
Stavans
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Ilan
Stavans, a Mexican writer and academic, is currently the Lewis-Sebring
Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College, Massechusetts,
USA. His books include The Hispanic Condition (1996), Art and
Anger (1996), The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories (1998), and
On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language (2001), as well as a dictionary
of Spanglish. He is the recipient of the Latino Literature Prize and a
Guggenheim Fellowship, among many honours. His work has been translated
into half a dozen languages.
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Allen
Weinstein
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Allen Weinstein is an historian with a distinguished
teaching career in the United States. He has received a number of awards
in recognition of his work as an historian and his efforts on behalf of
global democratic development, most significantly the United Nations Peace
Medal. His books include (most recently) Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers
Case (new edition 1998) and The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage
in America- The Stalin Era (1999). His articles and reviews have appeared
in a broad range of scholarly and popular publications. Since 1985, he
has been President and CEO of the Center for Democracy (Washington, D.C.).
HeI has served as non-voting chairman of the International IMPAC Dublin
Literary Award since its inception in 1996.
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