Man Booker 2010 judges

Sir Andrew Motion (Chair)

Andrew Motion is Professor of Creative Writing at Royal Holloway College, University of London and co-founder of the online Poetry Archive. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1999 for a ten year term. He has received numerous awards for his writing. His group study The Lamberts won the Somerset Maugham Award and his authorised life of Philip Larkin won the Whitbread Prize for Biography. Andrew Motion was knighted for his services to literature in 2009.

Rosie Blau

is Literary Editor of the Financial Times. Educated at Cambridge and Harvard, she has been a journalist for the past decade, writing for a variety of publications in the UK and US. She joined the Financial Times in 2003 and has worked as a columnist, arts editor and news editor.

Deborah Bull

was a dancer and is now Creative Director of the Royal Opera House as well as a writer and broadcaster. She danced with The Royal Ballet from 1981 to 2001, the last 10 years as Principal Dancer. Deborah’s books include a diary, Dancing Away. For three years she contributed a weekly column to the Daily Telegraph. She has broadcast regularly, including the landmark series for BBC2, The Dancer’s Body, in 2002. She was a member of Arts Council England between 1998 and 2005 and served as a Governor of the BBC between 2003 and 2006. In 1999 she was awarded a CBE.

Tom Sutcliffe

is an author, broadcaster and journalist. He studied English at Cambridge before joining the BBC where he has since presented A Good Read, Saturday Review and Round Britain Quiz. He was editor of Kaleidoscope, Radio Four’s long-running predecessor to Front Row. He helped launch The Independent newspaper as its arts editor and still writes for the paper as a television reviewer and columnist. A BBC 2 series, Watching, was based on his book about cinema.

Frances Wilson

has a PhD in Henry James and lectured in English Literature for 15 years before becoming a freelance writer. She is author of Literary Seductions: Compulsive Writers and Diverted Readers; The Courtesan’s Revenge: Harriette Wilson, the Woman who Blackmailed the King and The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth, which won the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize. She was a judge for the Whitbread Biography prize in 2005 and reviews for the Sunday Times and the Times Literary Supplement. She is currently writing a biography of J Bruce Ismay, chairman of the company that owned the ill-fated trans-Atlantic liner, the ‘Titanic’.