International
IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2007
Judging Panel |
Hanan
Al-Shaykh 
| Hanan
al-Shaykh was born in Lebanon and grew up in Beirut.
Her most recent novel, Only in London, was shortlisted for the Independent
Foreign Fiction Prize. Hanan was educated in Cairo and wrote her first novel there
when she was nineteen before returning to Beirut to work as a journalist for Al-Nahar
newspaper Al Hasna Magazine.
Hanan writes in Arabic and her work has been
translated into 21 languages. She has also written a collection of short stories,
I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops; and two plays, Dark Afternoon Tea
and Paper Husband which have been performed at the Hampstead Theatre.
Her latest work is a story about the life of her mother, Hikayati. Since
1984 she has lived in London with her family.
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Carmen
Callil 
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Carmen
Callil was born in Melbourne in 1938 and graduated from
the University of Melbourne with a BA Arts degree in History and Literature. A
Doctor of Letters from Sheffield, York, Oxford Brookes and The Open University,
Carmen has lived in London since 1960. She has pursued a wide-ranging career since
founding the Virago Press in 1972.
Now a critic and writer, Carmen Callil's
work includes: The Modern Library: The Best 200 Novels in English since 1950,
written with Colm Toibin and published by Picador in April 1999; a biographical
account of her family in New Writing 5, edited for the British Council by Christopher
Hope and Peter Porter and Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family & Fatherland,
a book about Vichy France and Louis Darquier, Commissioner for Jewish Affairs
in Pétain's government.
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Gerald
Dawe
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Belfast
born poet Gerald Dawe has
published six collections of poetry, including, most recently, The Morning
Train and Lake Geneva. He is a fellow of Trinity College, Dublin where
he is Lecturer in English and director of the graduate writing programme. He has
edited several anthologies of Irish poetry and criticism as well as publishing
volumes of his own literary essays.
He lives in Dun Laoghaire.
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Almeida
Faria
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Almelda
Faria was born in Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal
in 1943. A fiction writer playwright and essayist, he currently lectures in Aesthetics
at the New University of Lisbon. The
recipient of many prizes, he published his first novel Rumor Branco (White
Noise) in 1962 at the age of 19. His other novels include A Paixão
(The Passion, 1965), the first part of a trilogy set. His O Conquistador
(The Conqueror, 1990) is an ironic and erotic parody which "weaves a
devilish black comedy of subtle double entendres on philosophical, linguistic
and ideological levels". His
books are translated into many languages, including Spanish, Franch, Italian,
Dutch, German, Greek, Danish, Swedish, Hungarian and Bulgarian. |
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Lilian
Faschinger
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Lilian
Faschinger was born in Carinthia, Austria
in 1950. She studied English and History at Karl Franzens University, Graz, where
she earned a Ph. D. in English also working there as a college lecturer.
She
has worked as a literary translator and freelance writer, receiving numerous awards
for both her fiction and her translations. Since 1998, she has held several writer-in-residence
positions at American colleges and universities, including Dartmouth College and
Washington University in St. Louis.
In addition to several plays, Lilian
Faschinger has published two volumes of poetry, two collections of short stories
and five novels. Her most successful novel to date, Magdalena the Sinner
has been translated into 16 languages. |
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. |
