13 December 2011
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Downton Abbey star Dan Stevens to be a Booker Prize judge
Actor Stevens, who plays Downton heart-throb Matthew Crawley, will join the judging panel for the 2012 Man Booker Prize ...
Actor Dan Stevens, who plays Downton heart-throb Matthew Crawley, will join the judging panel for the 2012 Man Booker Prize
Last year's Booker panel, chaired by former head of MI5 Dame Stella Rimington, attracted criticism for its 'lightweight' selections for the prize.
This year's chair is Sir Peter Stothard, the editor of the Times Literary Supplement. The rest of the judging panel comprises academics Bharat Tandon and Dinah Birch and historian Amanda Foreman.
Adding a dash of glamour to the line-up of judges, Dan Stevens read English at Oxford, writes for the Sunday Telegraph, and starred in the TV adaptation of Alan Hollinghurst's 2004-Booker-winning The Line of Beauty.
Both members of Writing Magazine's staff have been in highly acclaimed films: Wuthering Heights and The King's Speech. We are now eagerly awaiting our invitations to be Booker judges, too.
Website: www.themanbookerprize.com
Last year's Booker panel, chaired by former head of MI5 Dame Stella Rimington, attracted criticism for its 'lightweight' selections for the prize.
This year's chair is Sir Peter Stothard, the editor of the Times Literary Supplement. The rest of the judging panel comprises academics Bharat Tandon and Dinah Birch and historian Amanda Foreman.
Adding a dash of glamour to the line-up of judges, Dan Stevens read English at Oxford, writes for the Sunday Telegraph, and starred in the TV adaptation of Alan Hollinghurst's 2004-Booker-winning The Line of Beauty.
Both members of Writing Magazine's staff have been in highly acclaimed films: Wuthering Heights and The King's Speech. We are now eagerly awaiting our invitations to be Booker judges, too.
Website: www.themanbookerprize.com
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