Helen Oyeyemi joins the judging panel for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize

Helen Oyeyemi won a Somerset Maugham award for her novel White is for Witching and was named one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists last year, joins a prestigious panel of judges for the £10,000 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2015. 

The Prize, which celebrates its 25^th anniversary in 2015, honours an exceptional work of fiction by a living author which has been translated into English from any other language and published in the United Kingdom in 2014. 

The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize is unique as it gives the winning author and translator equal status, they each receive £5,000, recognising the importance of the translator in their ability to maintain the integrity of the story between languages and cultures.

The judges for this year's Prize include:

•    Rosie Goldsmith - journalist specialising in arts and current affairs

•    Antonia Lloyd Jones - full-time translator of Polish literature

•    Dr Richard Mansell - Senior Lecturer in Translation at the University of Exeter

•    Helen Oyeyemi - author of five novels, including Boy, Snow, Bird

•    Boyd Tonkin - senior writer and columnist at The Independent

It should be an exciting competition, the shortlist will be announced in April 2015 and the award ceremony will be held in May 2015. 

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