Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2012 judges announced

The Director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival Nick Barley, and Xiaolu Guo, who wrote the Orange shortlisted A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, have joined the panel of judges for the £10,000 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2012.

The judges for this year's Prize are:

• Freelance critic, feature writer and broadcaster Hephzibah Anderson
• Nick Barley, Director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival
• Jon Cook, Professor of Literature and Director of the Centre for Creative and Performing Arts at the University of East Anglia, and Chair of Arts Council England, East.
• Novelist, short story writer and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo
• Boyd Tonkin, Literary Editor of the Independent
  
  

Nick Barley commented: 'I'm very excited and honoured to have been invited to judge the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize this year. I am proud of the Edinburgh International Book Festival's history of welcoming writers from around the world but I am also aware that there are countless authors working in other languages who have not yet been given the attention they deserve in the UK. I look forward to relishing the courageous work of so many adventurous publishers and I'll be delighted to play my part in helping them bring unique stories from other languages to a wider English-speaking audience.'