The Man Booker International Prize 2005

The judges

• John Carey (chair)
  

  John Carey is the UK’s most eminent literary critic. He is also a broadcaster and the author of many books. He was Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford from 1976-2001 and chaired the Booker Prize in 1982 and 2003 along with chairing the Man Booker International Prize in 2005.

• Alberto Manguel
  

  Alberto Manguel is a writer, novelist, translator and editor. He has received numerous awards and honours from around the world, including the Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France, 2004), Premio German Sanchez Ruiperez for best literary criticism (Spain, 2002) and the Prix Roger Caillois (France, 2004). He has also been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

• Azar Nafis
  

  Azar Nafisi is a visiting fellow, professorial lecturer, and the director of The Dialogue Project: The Culture of Democracy in Muslim Societies at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC.