The Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award 2012 judging panel is announced

Melvyn Bragg, Ian Hart, Hanif Kureishi, Edna O'Brien, Joanna Trollope and Andrew Holgate to judge the third Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award.

A stellar cast of judges has been announced for the world's most valuable prize for a single short story. Novelist, screenwriter and broadcaster, Melvyn Bragg, returns to the panel to judge the £30,000 Award for the second consecutive year. He will be joined by stage and screen actor Ian Hart and three other literary heavyweights: the playwright, screenwriter, novelist, short story writer and director Hanif Kureishi; the novelist Joanna Trollope; and the novelist and short story writer Edna O'Brien - fresh from winning the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. Completing the line-up are Andrew Holgate, Literary Editor of The Sunday Times, and Matthew Evans, Chairman of EFG Private Bank and the non-voting Chair of Judges.

Read the judges' full bios here