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INTERNATIONAL
PANEL OF JUDGES 1996
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| Lidia Jorge was born in the Algarve, Portugal and educated at the University of Lisbon. Currently based in Lisbon, Lidia Jorge travels and lectures extensively throughout Europe. The winner of the Portugal Writers Association Award for 1980 and twice winner of the Premio Literario Municipio de Lisboa, Lidia Jorge is on of the most prominent figures in the post revolutionary generation of Portuguese Writers. |  |
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Professor Brendan Kennelly was born in Co. Kerry, Ireland and educated at Trinity College Dublin where he has now been Professor of Modern Literature since 1973. Recipient of the A.E. Memorial Prize and best known as a poet, he is a very prolific author and has had many works published including several novels. Brendan Kennelly is tremendously respected for his translations of Irish literature into English and is respected worldwide as a writer of emotional honesty and power.
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Christopher Hope was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and educated at the Universities of Witwatersrand and Natal. He has won many prizes for his fictional works including the Pringle Award from teh English Academy of Southern Africa (1972), the Cholmondelay Award for Poetry (1977), the Whitbread Award for fiction and the 1990 PEN Award. He is another prolific writer of many types of work including television plays and contributions to many international magazines.
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| Luisa Valenzuela was born and educated in Argentina and is the daughter of the writer Luisa Mercedes Levinson. Being born into a literary family she became a journalist at the age of 17 and had her first book of fiction published a year later. Since then most of her books have been translated into English. The winner of the Fulbright scholarship (1969-1970) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (1983). Luisa Valenzuela travels extensively throughout the world to lecture at many universities and seats of learning. She was formerly Writer-in Residence at the New York University and Columbia University. |  |
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Robert Taylor was born in Massachusetts and educated at Colgate and Brown Universities. He is a Professor of English at Wheaton College, Massachusetts where he has taught fiction since 1961. Robert Taylor, the author of several novels, is a very accomplished critic and writer on art, music and theatre.
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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 International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award Panel. |
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