Advisory Council

The Prize’s Advisory Council assists the Administrative Committee in various activities, including outreach.

_{The Advisory Council for 2012 is in alphabetical order:} 

	André Aciman was born in Alexandria, Egypt and is an American memoirist, essayist, novelist, and scholar of seventeenth-century literature. He has also written many essays and reviews on Marcel Proust. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The New Republic, Condé Nast Traveler as well as in many volumes of The Best American Essays. Aciman received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University and, after teaching at Princeton University and Bard College, is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York. He is currently chair of the Ph. D. Program in Comparative Literature and founder and director of The Writers’ Institute at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York.  He is currently chair of the Ph. D. Program in Comparative Literature and founder and director of The Writers’ Institute at the Graduate Center. Aciman is the author of the Whiting Award-winning memoir Out of Egypt (1995), an account of his childhood as a Jew growing up in post-colonial Egypt. His books and essays have been translated in many languages. In addition to Out of Egypt, Aciman has published three other books: False Papers: Essays in Exile and Memory (2001), and most recently a novel entitled Eight White Nights (2010) and Call Me By Your Name (2007), which was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and won the Lambda Literary Award for Men’s Fiction (2008). He also edited Letters of Transit (1999) and The Proust Project (2004) and prefaced Monsieur Proust (2003), The Light of New York (2007), Condé Nast Traveler’s Room With a View (2010) and Stefan Zweig’s Journey to the Past (2010). His latest collection of essays, Alibis: Essays on Elsewhere (FSG) appear in fall 2011 to great reviews.  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.
	Monica Ali is the daughter of English and Bangladeshi parents. Coming to England aged three, she grew up in Bolton in Greater Manchester, and later studied at Oxford University. Her debut novel, Brick Lane (2003), an epic saga about a Bangladeshi family living in the UK, explores the British immigrant experience. It was shortlisted for the 2003 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and made into a major motion picture, released in 2007. Her collection of stories set in and around a Portuguese village, Alentejo Blue, was published in 2006. Her latest novel, In the Kitchen (2009), returns to London and issues of multiculturalism, identity and belonging. Ali has been named by Granta magazine as one of the twenty best young British novelists. She lives with her husband and two children in London. Homi K. Bhabha is the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities in the Department of English, Director of the Marhindra Humanities Center, and Senior Advisor on the Humanities to the President and Provost at Harvard University. Bhabha is the author of numerous works exploring postcolonial theory, cultural change and power, and cosmopolitanism, among other themes. Some of his works include Nation and Narration and The Location of Culture. He most recently contributed essays to exhibition catalogues on the work of Taryn Simon, Anish Kapoor, Raqib Shaw, and Shahzia Sikander. The University of Chicago Press and Harvard University Press will be publishing his forthcoming books. Bhabha has delivered the Presidential Lectures at Stanford University and Freie Universität Berlin. He also serves as an advisor at key art institutions, is a Trustee of the UNESCO World Report on Cultural Diversity, and Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Human Rights. He served as a juror at the 53rd International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale and on the Man Asian Literary Prize jury in 2011. Educated at the University of Bombay and the University of Oxford, Bhabha was profiled by Newsweek as one of “100 Americans for the Next Century.” He was awarded one of India’s highest civilian honors, the Padma Bhushan, in 2011 by the Government of India in the field of education and literature.
	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 broadcasting journalism, the arts and public service. Her memoirs have been published under the title Heart Matters.
	Charles Foran is a former Hong Kong resident, a Canadian writer and a journalist. Among his ten books are four novels and two biographies, including Mordecai: The Life and Times, winner of four major literary awards, including the 2011 Governor General’s Prize for Non-fiction. Razia Iqbal is a Special Correspondent for the British Broadcasting Corporation, having previously been the BBC Arts Correspondent reporting on a range of arts and culture stories from around the world. She currently presents the flagship news and current affairs programme, Newshour, for the BBC World Service. Since 2010 Ms. Iqbal has hosted the Talking Books programme on the BBC News Channel, interviewing a range of authors including Sir Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi and Ian McEwan, as well as serving on the Advisory Board of The Festival of Asian Literature in London. Iqbal was born into a Punjabi family in Uganda, and graduated from the University of East Anglia in the UK. Razia Iqbal was the Chair of Judges for the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize.
	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 is Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide and a member of the Writing and Society Research Centre, University of Western Sydney. He was Visiting Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University 2009-10, and an inaugural Man Asian Literary Prize judge 2007-08.  Chang-rae Lee is the author of the novels Native Speaker (1995), A Gesture Life (1999), Aloft (2004), and most recently, The Surrendered, which was a 2011 Pulitzer Prize Finalist. His other awards and citations include the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, the American Book Award, the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, ALA Notable Book of the Year Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Literary Award, the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, and the NAIBA Book Award for Fiction. Lee was born in Seoul, Korea and emigrated to the United States when he was three. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, Yale, and the University of Oregon. He is a Professor in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University, where he teaches creative writing.
	Leung Ping-kwan is chair professor in comparative literature at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. He is a literary, film and culture critic and an accomplished contemporary Chinese poet. He has published more than ten volumes of poems, including bilingual editions such as City at the End of Time (1992), Travelling with a Bitter Melon (2002) and Amblings (2010). His collection of short stories, Island and Continents, has English (2007, Hong Kong University Press) and French (2001, Gallimard) translations.  His latest work  of fiction, Postcolonial Affairs of Food and the Heart  (2009) was awarded the Hong Kong Biannual prize for best fiction.
	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, Don’t Cry, Tai Lake (2012) and of a collection of linked stories, Years of Red Dust: Stories of Shanghai (2010). He is also the author of three books of poetry translations, Treasury of Chinese Love Poems (2003), Evoking T’ang (2007) and 100 Classic Chinese Poems (2010), and his own poetry collection, Lines Around China (2003) Vikas Swarup is an Indian diplomat and writer presently serving as India’s Consul General in Osaka-Kobe, Japan. His debut novel, Q&A (2005), tells the story of how a penniless waiter in Mumbai becomes the biggest quiz show winner in history. The book has become an international bestseller and translated into over forty languages. The novel has adapted for the screen as Slumdog Millionaire, directed by Danny Boyle, which picked up eight Academy Awards including for Best Picture in 2009. His second novel Six Suspects (2008), also set in India, has been optioned for a film. Vikas Swarup was born in Allahabad, India and joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1986.
	Hsu-Ming Teo is a cultural historian and novelist. Born in Malaysia, her family migrated to Sydney, Australia in 1977. Her first novel Love and Vertigo (1999) won The Australian/ Vogel Literary Award and was also short-listed for the inaugural Tasmania Pacific Region Literary Prize and the Dobbie Award for women’s fiction. Her second novel, Behind the Moon (2005) was short-listed for one of the 2006 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. She was a member of the NSW Premier’s Literature and History committee in 2004 and one of the judges of the 2007 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. She has been on the Advisory Council of the Man Asian Literary Prize since 2007. Teo is a Senior Lecturer and Head of Modern History at Macquarie University, where her research and teaching interests are in the area of twentieth-century European history, Orientalism, travel and tourism, and popular literature. She also runs creative writing workshops for the Faber Academy, Sydney.