2008 Man Asian Literary Prize

Advisory Council for the 2008 Prize

The Prize's Advisory Council assisted the Administrative Committee in various activities, including outreach. The Advisory Council for 2008 is, in alphabetical order:

	Andre Aciman is the author of Out of Egypt: A Memoir, False Papers: Essays on Exile and Memory, and the co-author and editor of The Proust Project and of Letters of Transit. He was born in Alexandria and lived in Egypt, Italy, and France. He received a Ph. D. from Harvard, has taught at Princeton and Bard College and is now Chair of Comparative Literature at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as a fellowship from The New York Public Library's Center for Scholars and Writers. He has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books and Commentary. His new novel Call Me by Your Name is now published. He was a judge for the National Book Award in 2001, and was on the panel of judges in the 2007 Man Asian Literary Prize.
	Mark L. Clifford was Editor-in-Chief the South China Morning Post, from February 3, 2006 to April 1, 2007. He left to join the Asia Business Council, as its Executive Director. Clifford is also the author of several books, including China and the WTO: Changing China, Changing World Trade (2002).
	Charles Foran is an award-winning Canadian writer, journalist and broadcaster. His books include Carolan's Farewell, Kitchen Music, Butterfly Lovers, House on Fire and Sketches in Winter: A Beijing Postcript, The Last House of Ulster: A Family in Belfast and The Story of My Life (So Far).
	Leung Ping-kwan is Chairman of the Chinese Department at Hong Kong's Lingnan University. He is a literary, film and culture critic and an accomplished contemporary Chinese language poet. He has published more than ten volumes of poems, including bilingual editions such as Travelling with a Bitter Melon (2002).
	Hsu-Ming Teo's first novel Love and Vertigo, was awarded the Australian/Vogel Award. Her most recent book is Behind the Moon. Born in Malaysia in 1970, she is now a research fellow at the Department of Modern History at Macquarie University.
	Qiu Xiaolong is the author of the award-winning Inspector Chen series of mystery novels, including Death of a Red Heroine and Red Mandarin Dress. He is also the author of two books of poetry translations, Treasury of Chinese Love Poems (2003) and Evoking T'ang (2007), and his own poetry collection, Lines Around China (2003).