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INTERNATIONAL
PANEL OF JUDGES 1998
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in Toronto in 1950, Greg Gatenby is well known
and respected world-wide as the Artistic Director of the Harbourfront Reading
Series. Since he assumed control of the Reading Series in 1975, he has hosted
readings and talks at Harbourfront by more than 2,500 authors from more
than 90 nations. Greg Gatenby is the author of several books of poetry and
has published a number of anthologies on subjects as diverse as dolphins
and whales in art, music and literature and how foreign writers have written
about Canada and Canadians. he is currently writing the Literary Guide to
Toronto. In 1989 he was awarded the City of Toronto Literary Prize and in
1991 was made an honorary lifetime member of the League of Canadian Poets.
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Mexican
writer, critic and journalist, Margo Glantz
teaches at the National Mexican University (UNAM) and has held visiting
positions in the Universities of La Jolla, Irvine, Riverside, Yale, Princeton,
Rice, and Berkeley, California. Margo Glantz is the author of a number
of books in Spanish and her novel The Family Tree was published in
English in 1991. Her latest novel, Apariciones (1996) will be translated
into English and French shortly. She has won the Villaurrutia Prize for
Sindrome de Naufragios and the Magda Donato prize for Las genealogias.
Margo Glantz has lectured for many years throughout Europe, Canada, the
USA, and Latin America. She has two daughters, lives in Mexico City, and
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Märta
Tikkanen
was born into a Swedish speaking family in Helsinki, Finland, in 1935. She
has worked as a journalist, raised her children, and was Director of an
adult education institute before becoming a full time writer in 1979, the
year she won the Literary Prize for Northern Women.
Märta Tikkanen has written novels, plays, and poetry, as well as editing
a number of anthologies. Her work has been translated into 24 languages.
She lives in Helsinki.
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Paul
Muldoon
was born in 1951 in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, and educated in Armagh
and at the Queen’s University, Belfast. From 1973 to 1986 he worked in Belfast
as a radio and television producer for the British Broadcasting Corporation
(BBC). Since 1987 he has lived in the United States, where he taught at
Berkeley, Columbia, and the University of Massachusetts. He now teaches
in the Creative Writing program at Princeton University.
Described by Seamus Heaney as “one of the era’s true originals”, Paul Muldoon
has published several books of poetry including, most recently, The
Annals of Chile (1994) and New Selected Poems 1968-94 (1996),
which won the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize. He is also an editor, translator,
and librettist. |
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| Novelist,
poet essayist and scriptwriter Al Young was
born in Mississippi, USA, in 1939 and attended the University of Michigan
and later the University of California, Berkeley. An energetic and prolific
author and editor, Al Young’s work is published in more than 12 languages.
He hasught at Stanford, and at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
He has held visiting positions at the University of Washington, the University
of Michigan, and the University of Arkansas. Al Young has travelled throughout
Europe, Asia, Australia, and the USA, lecturing on American culture, the
arts, music, myth, creativity and human survival. The recipient of Guggenheim
and Fulbright fellowships, he lives near San Francisco. |
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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 and 1997 International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award Panels. |
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You
can also read about:
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The
Winner of the 1998 Award
The
1998 Shortlist
The
1998 Complete list of eligible nominated titles
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