Jury: 2009-2010


	RT HON BARONESS QUIN OF GATESHEAD Joyce Quin is chair of the jury and chair of the FBC. As a former Lecturer in French and Politics, a former MEP and a former Minister of Europe, Joyce Quin is well placed to promote Franco-British understanding. She also chairs the All Party EU group in parliament and, in addition, brings to the Council a strong regional focus recognised by the award to her of the Freedom of the Borough of Gateshead.
	BONNIE GREER Bonnie Greer is an Anglo-American writer and broadcaster with years of experience on both sides of the Atlantic. In the UK she has won the Verity Bargate Award for best new play and has had 10 plays produced on Radio 3 and Radio 4. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Member of the Franco-British Council. Bonnie has been Arts Council Playwright in Residence for the Soho Theatre and for the Black Theatre Co-operative, and Arts Council of England Playwright in Residence for the London based Pascal Theatre Company. She was a theatre critic for Time Out and is a frequent contributor to TV, radio and newspaper reviews.
	TOM CHATFIELD Tom Chatfield completed a doctorate in literature and taught at St John's College, Oxford, before moving to London to work as a full-time writer and editor. He is currently the arts and books editor at Prospect magazine, and writes fiction, poetry and non-fiction. His first book of non-fiction, Gameland, is forthcoming from Virgin Books. He is currently completing his first novel, and is a keen amateur jazz pianist.

BOYD TONKIN

Boyd Tonkin is the Literary Editor of The Independent. Before joining the newspaper in 1996 he wrote for 'The Observer', was Literary Editor of the 'New Statesman', Features Editor of 'Community Care magazine', and has also taught literature in higher education. He has judged the Booker Prize, the David Cohen Prize, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and re-founded the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for literature in translation. Books to which he has contributed range from the Oxford Good Fiction Guide to Reading the Vampire Slayer. He has appeared on a wide variety of broadcast arts programmes, and has reported on literary and cultural matters from countries including India, Brazil, Ukraine, Cuba, Finland and Greece.