International
IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2005
Judging Panel |
Jonathan
Buckley
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Jonathan
Buckley was born in Birmingham, UK. He
is the author of the Rough Guide to Venice & the Veneto in
addition to writing guidebooks on Tuscany & Umbria and Florence, and
contributing to the Rough Guides to classical music and opera. His first
novel, The Biography of Thomas Lang, was published in 1997. Xerxes
followed in 1999, Ghost MacIndoe in 2001, and Invisible
in 2004. Since 2003 Jonathan has held a Royal Literary Fund fellowship
at the University of Sussex. |
Agnès
Desarthe
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Agnès
Desarthe was born in 1966 in Paris, where
she now lives, with her husband - a filmmaker, and her two children. She
has worked as a translator and has published numerous books for children
and teenagers. She is the author of six novels, two of which, Five
Photos of My Wife and Good Intentions, have been published
in English to great acclaim. She received the Prix Inter 1996 for her
novel Un Secret Sans Importance. |
Rita
Ann Higgins
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Rita
Ann Higgins was born in 1955 in Galway,
Ireland. She is the author of eight collections of poetry, the most recent
being An Awful Racket 2001. Throw in the Vowels: New & Selected
Poems is due in May 2005. She has edited Out the Clara Road: The
Offaly Anthology and co-edited Word and Image: a collection
of poems from Sunderland Women's Centre and Washington Bridge Centre and
Fizz: poetry of resistance and challenge 2004 - a poetry anthology
written by young people. Rita has also written three plays. She is a member
of Aosdána. |
Nino
Ricci
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Nino
Ricci was born in Ontario, Canada and
has taught both in Canada and abroad. He now lives in Toronto, where
he writes full time. He is a past president of the Canadian Centre of
International PEN, a writers' human rights organization that works for
freedom of expression. He is the author of four award-winning novels,
Lives of the Saints, winner of the Governor General's Award for
Fiction, In A Glass House, Where She Has Gone and, most
recently, Testament.
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Milan
Richter
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Milan
Richter is a poet, translator and publisher,
born in Bratislava in 1948. He has published eight volumes of poetry including
From Behind the Velvet Curtains, 1997, An Angel with Black Feathers,
2000 and The Wrecked Temple in Me, 2002. He was forbidden to publish
for more than ten years and during this time he devoted all his creative
activity to translation. He has served as chairman of Slovak Literary
Translators Society and as vice-chairman of the Slovak PEN Centre. He
has been director of the Jan Smrek International Literary Festival in
Bratislava which he launched in 2000. |
Eugene
Sullivan
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Eugene
R. Sullivan, non-voting chair of the
judging panel, is a former Chief Judge of a US Court of Appeals and brings
a wealth of experience from sixteen years on the bench. His first novel,
The Majority Rules, will be published in January 2005. He currently
heads up a judicial consultancy group outside of Washington, D.C. |
