2009 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.
	The Rt Hon Adrienne Clarkson chaired the Man Asian Literary Prize judging panel in 2007 and 2008. She was Governor-General of Canada from 1999 to 2005 and a judge of the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize. A leading figure in Canada's cultural life, Madame Clarkson has had a rich and distinguished career in broadcastingm journalism, the arts and public service. Her memoirs have been published under the title Heart Matters .
	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).
	Peter Gordon was Chair and Executive Director of the inaugural 2007 and 2008 Man Asian Literary Prizes. He is also editor of the Asian Review of Books , and was a founder and organiser of the Man Hong Kong International Literary Festival. His essays and opinion pieces have appeared in such publications as the South China Morning Post and the Hong Kong Standard.
	Nicholas Jose is the author of several acclaimed novels, including Paper Nautilus , The Rose Crossing , The Custodians , The Red Thread , and Original Face , as well as a memoir, Black Sheep: Journey to Borroloola . He was Cultural Counsellor at the Australian Embassy, Beijing, from 1987 to 1990. He currently holds the Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide and was a judge of Kiriyama Prize in 2004.
	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).
	Justin Hill was born in Freeport, Grand Bahama Island in 1971 and was brought up in York. He was educated at St Peter's School, York, and was a member of St Cuthbert's Society, Durham University. He worked for seven years as a volunteer with VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas) in rural China and Africa. His internationally acclaimed first novel, The Drink and Dream Teahouse, won the 2003 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and a 2002 Betty Trask Award, and banned by the government in China. It was also picked by the Washington Post as one of the Top Novels of 2001. His second novel, Passing Under Heaven, won the 2005 Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the Encore Award. The Independent on Sunday and Sunday Telegraph both picked it for their Christmas Recommended Reads in 2005. Justin is an Assistant Professor at Hong Kong University; Honorary Fellow at Lingnan University; contributing editor for the Asian Literary Review.