International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2002

Judging Panel

Born in 1935, educated at Eton and the Maidenhead Public Library. He has written biographies of Lytton Strachey, Augustus John and Bernard Shaw, as well as an autobiography, Basil Street Blues. He has been chairman of the Society of Authors and the Royal Society of Literature, a member of the Arts Council of Great Britain and president of English PEN. He has been awarded the CBE for services to literature.

Acclaimed Irish novelist. Born 1930 and educated at Trinity College Dublin. Her first novel, The Captains and the Kings, was published in 1972. Other novels include How Many Miles to Babylon?, The Old Jest (Whitbread Award), Shadows on our Skin (shortlisted for the Booker Award), The Illusionist; The Railway Station Man, Two Moons and most recently The Gingerbread Woman (2000). She is also the author of several plays.

Icelandic novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright. Born in 1950 in Reykjavik. She graduated from University College Dublin in 1972. She has published six novels, six volumes of poetry, two collections of short stories, a book for children, and a book about Vigdis Finnbogadottir, former President of Iceland. She has also translated poetry and prose. Although none of her novels has been translated into English, some poetry and short stories have appeared in collections of Icelandic work in English. Her work has been translated into all the Scandinavian languages, as well as German, French and Dutch. Her novel Timapjofurinn (Thief of Time) was made into a film in France in 1999. She has received several Icelandic literary awards. She has lived in various places in Europe, the U.S. and Japan, and is currently based in Paris.

Born and raised in New York State but has lived and worked on Canada's west coast since 1959. Her short story collections include Two in the Bush and other Stories, Real Mothers, Goodbye Harold, Good Luck and The Wild Blue Yonder, which won the B.C. Book Prize. She is also the author of a number of highly acclaimed novels, including Latakia, Mrs Blood, Songs My Mother Taught Me, Intertidal Life (which was nominated for a Governor General's Award and won the B.C. Book Prize), Graven Images, Coming Down From Wa (which was nominated for a Governor General's Award and won the B.C. Book Prize) and, most recently, Isobel Gunn, which was included in the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award longlist in 2001. She has also won the Canada-Australia Prize and the Marian Engel Award. She has taught at a number of Canadian universities and holds honorary doctorates from Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia. She lives on Galiano Island, British Columbia, Canada.

Born in Mexico in 1968. Has a B.A. in Law and an M.A. in Mexican literature and is a PhD candidate in Philology at the University of Salamanca, Spain. He is the author of seven novels and an essay about the Mexican intellectuals in 1968. In 1999 he received the Biblioteca Breve Prize for his novel In Search of Klingsor, which has been translated into many languages. He was Visiting Writer at Emory University, Atlanta in the first semester of 2000. He has lectured in many universities: The National Autonomous, Las Americas of Puebla and Iberoamericana in Mexico; San José in Costa Rica; Salamanca and Barcelona in Spain; Milan Central and Milan Catholic in Italy and Cornell, Yale, Duke, Tulane and UCLA in the U.S.A. His is currently Cultural Attaché and Director of the Mexican Cultural Institute in Paris, France.

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 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.) and has served as non-voting chairman of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award since its inception in 1996.