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INTERNATIONAL
PANEL OF JUDGES 1997
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| Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield in 1939 and educated at the Mount School, York, and Newnham College, Cambridge. She is a novelist and critic, author of thirteen novels and editor of the fifth edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature (1985). Her biography of the novelist Sir Angus Wilson was published by Secker and Warburg in 1995, and a new novel The Witch of Exmoor (Viking), was published in October 1996. Margaret Drabble is married to the biographer Michael Holroyd, and they divide their time between London and Somerset. |  |
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| The daughter of native Irish speakers, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill was born in Lancashire in 1952. The family returned to Ireland in 1957 and she grew up there. After graduating from University College Cork she moved to Holland with her Turkish husband and then lived for a number of years in Turkey. She has lived in Ireland since 1980 and has become established as one of Ireland's foremost Irish language poets. Her work has been translated into many languages, including French, German, Polish, Italian, Norwegian, Estonian and Japanese and has won many international awards. She has been described as one of the most innovative and revitalising voices in modern Irish poetry. |
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| Josef Skvorecký was born in 1924 in Nachod, in Czechoslovakia. His first major work The Cowards was published in Czechoslovakia in 1958. He left there in 1968 and moved to Canada, where he was editor-in-chief of the exile publishing house Sixty-Eight Publishers. Prior to the Soviet-led invasion Skvorecký was already established as a novelist, essayist, editor, script-writer and translator. He won the 1980 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1984 Canadian Governor General's Award. Most of his works were published in English but since 1989 have been republished in the Czech Republic. |  |
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| Jane Urquhart was born in Little Long Lac, Ontario, and grew up in Toronto. The Whirlpool, her first novel, was published after a book of short stories and three books of poetry. It went on to be published internationally as did her succeeding novels, Changing Heaven and Away, which won Canada's Trillium Award and was one of the books shortlisted for the 1996 International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award. Jane Urquhart is currently writer-in-residence at the University of Toronto. She has served on numerous Award Juries, including the Canada - Australia Prize, and is a"Chevalier" of the Order of Arts and Letters in France. |  |
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| Shawn Wong was born in 1949 in Oakland California. He is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, and San Francisco State University. Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Washington in Seattle, Shawn Wong is the editor of a number of anthologies of Asian - American Literature and is the author of the award-winning novel Homebase. His most recent novel is American Knees. He has also served on a number of prestigious award committees, including the PEN/Faulkner Award, and is one of the editors of the compendium of American Book Award selections published in 1992. |  |
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| CHAIRMAN
OF THE JUDGING PANEL (NON-VOTING) Born in 1937, American 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 articles and reviews have appeared in a broad range of scholarly and popular publications. Since 1985, he has been the President and CEO of the Center for Democracy (Washington, D.C.). He served as the non-voting Chairman of the 1996 International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award Panel. |
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