Professor Elleke Boehmer appointed Man Booker International Prize 2015 Judge

This prestigious biannual award, which is worth £60,000, was created to recognise one writer's ‘continued contribution to fiction on the world stage' and is based not on one work, but on their overall influence on international literary fiction.

Professor Boehmer says that she is ‘delighted to be able to put my expertise in African, Australian and Indian writing in English and translation to positive use by serving as a judge for the excellent Man Booker International Prize.  It's a prize that gives much needed recognition to writers who might otherwise be overlooked by the major Anglo-American literary prizes, such as the late Chinua Achebe.'

Professor Boehmer, who was recently awarded a Leverhulme International Network Grant for a project entitled 'Planned Violence: Post/colonial Urban Infrastructures and Literature', will be joined on the panel by novelist Nadeem Aslam, Edwin Frank, Editorial Director of the New York Review Classics series, and Wen-chin Ouyang, Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at SOAS. Writer and academic Marina Warner CBE will act as Chair. 

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