International
IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2006
Judging Panel
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Jane
Koustas
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Jane
Koustas is currently serving as the Craig Dobbin
Professor of Canadian Studies at University College Dublin. She is a Professor
in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Brock University,
St. Catharines, Ontario. Professor Koustas' research interests include
English-Canadian literature in translation, translation theory and practice,
translation history in Canada Quebec theatre and theatre translation.
She is the co-editor of two books, Théâtre sans frontières:
essays on the dramatic universe of Robert Lepage with Joe Donohoe
and Vision/Division: l'oeuvre de Nancy Huston with Marta Dvorak.
She has served on the jury of the Governor General's Literary Awards and
the Quebec Writers' Federation Translation Award.
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Mary
O'Donnell
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Mary
O'Donnell is a poet, novelist,
translator and critic based in Co. Kildare, Ireland. She has published
four volumes of poetry, most recently September Elegies in 2003
and has presented several series of poetry programmes for the Irish national
broadcaster, RTE. Her critically acclaimed third novel, The Elysium
Testament, appeared in 1999. Her work has been published in literary
magazines and journals in Ireland, the UK and the USA and anthologised
in collections in Ireland and abroad. She recently presented 'Crossing
the Lines', a series of radio programmes on European poetry in translation.
In 2001, Mary was elected to Aosdána, an affiliation of creative
artists in Ireland.
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Andrew
O'Hagan
©Jerry
Bauer
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Andrew
O'Hagan was born in 1968 in
Glasgow. In 1995 he wrote The Missing and in 1999 he published
his first novel, Our Fathers, which was shortlisted for the Man
Booker Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award, the International IMPAC
Dublin Literary Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and was winner
of the Holtby Prize for Fiction. His latest novel Personality,
published in 2003, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction.
Andrew also won the E.M.Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts
and Letters, and was named one of Granta's Best of Young British
Novelists. Since 2000 Andrew has been a Unicef Ambassador.
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Paolo
Ruffilli
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Paolo
Ruffilli was born in 1949 and
attended the University of Bologna, where he studied modern literature.
After a period of teaching, he became editor with the publisher Garzanti
in Milan, and is presently the general editor of the Edizioni del Leone
in Venice. Since 1972 he has published nine volumes of poetry. Among these
are the prize-winning Piccola colazione, Diario di Normandia,
Camera oscura, and La gioia e il lutto which was published
in English translation as Joy and Mourning in 2004. He has also
published a number of novels including Preparativi per la partenza
in 2003, as well as essays and translations from English.
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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, was published in 2005. He currently
heads up a judicial consultancy group outside Washington, D.C.
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