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INTERNATIONAL
PANEL OF JUDGES 1999
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| André Brink was born in South Africa in 1935. He was educated at Potchefstroom University and at the Sorbonne, Paris. Profoundly influenced by the traumatic political events of 1968 in South Africa, he determined to involve himself in the opposition to apartheid, and his books have explored both the temptations of exile and the compulsion to return to South Africa and oppose the racist government. His novel Kennis von dle Aand (Looking on Darkness) was banned in 1974 and he responded by beginning to write in English as well as Afrikaans. André Brink is the author of twelve novels in English, including A Dry White Season, A Chain of Voices, An Act of Terror, and Imaginings of Sand (the latter was short listed for the 1998 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award). He has won South Africa’s CNA Award three times and was twice short listed for the Booker Prize. His novels have been translated into twenty-nine languages. André Brink is Professor of English at the University of Cape Town. |  |
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Poet and novelist Bodil
Malmsten was born in 1944 in the north
of Sweden. A prolific writer, since 1977 she has published seven collections
of poetry, two novels, one collection of short stories, two collections
of prose, and three plays. Her first novel, Den dagen kastanjerna slår
ut är jag långt härifrån (On the day when the
chestnut trees burst into blossom ) was nominated for the August (Strindberg)
Prize and has just been published in Denmark. Her second novel, Nästa
som rör mig (The Next One to Touch me) was awarded both
the Aniara and the SKTF Prizes and has been published in Turkish translation:
Dutch and French translations will appear in 1999. Bodil Malmsten has also
received many awards for her poetry and her most recent collection, Inte
med den eld jag har nu (Not with the Fire in me now), takes its
title from a line in Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape. A translator
of English language plays and musicals, including 'A Chorus Line', into
Swedish, she is a regular contributor to television and radio programmes
in Sweden. She is divorced with one daughter and lives in Stockholm. |
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| Alberto Manguel was born in Buenos Aires and is now a Canadian citizen. He is a writer, translator, critic and anthologist. His books include News from a Foreign Country (novel), The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (with Gianni Guadalupi), A History of Reading, and Into the Looking-Glass Wood: essays on Words and the World. In 1996 he was appointed Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government. He contributes regularly to the Globe & Mail (Toronto), the Times Literary Supplement (London), the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian Review of Books, the New York Times, and the Svenska Dagbladet (Stockholm) among others. He is currently the Markin-Flanagan Distinguished Visiting Writer at the University of Calgary |  |
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| Born in London, the daughter of Sean and Eileen (Gould) O’Faolain, Julia O’Faolain was educated at University College, Dublin, the University of Rome, and the Sorbonne, Paris. She has worked as a writer, language teacher, editor and translator and has lived in France, Italy, and the USA. Among her novels are Women in the Wall, No Country for Young Men, The Obedient wife, The Irish Signorina and The Judas Cloth. Her short story collections include Man in the Cellar and Daughters of Passion, and her work has also featured in many anthologies. Julia O’Faolain is married to American historian Lauro Martines, and has one son: she lives in London. |  |
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| Tom Shapcott was born in 1935 in Ipswich, Australia, one of twins. Initially a Public Accountant, he published 9 volumes of poetry, an art monograph and edited 3 anthologies while still in that practice. In 1978 he became a full-time writer but joined the Literature Board of the Australia Council as a Director in 1998, becoming Executive Director of the National Book Council in 1992. He is now Professor of Creative Writing at Adelaide University (South Australia). He has published 6 adult novels, 2 volumes of short stories, 4 children’s novels and still publishes poetry. In 1989 he received an Hon.D.Litt. from Macquarie University (New South Wales), was made an Officer in the Order of Australia, and awarded the Gold Wreath at the Struga International Poetry Festival (Macedonia). He has 4 adult children, 2 grandchildren, and has not prepared an Income Tax Return (apart from his own, and family members) since 1978. He was written over 20 libretti for a number of Australian composers and considers himself a failed musician. |  |
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| Non-voting Chairman of the Judging Panel, Professor Allen Weinstein is an American 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. He is President and CEO of the Center for Democracy (Washington, D.C.). |  |
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