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2003 - The Judges
Profiles
Rosie Boycott (chair) has had
a highly distinguished career in journalism, having been
the first woman editor of two national broadsheets, the Independent
on Sunday and The Independent,
and a national tabloid, the Daily Express. During
the seventies she founded and edited Spare Rib,
and then went on to found the highly successful Virago
Press, publisher of women’s writing. She is also
an author in her own right, amongst her titles ‘A Nice
Girl Like Me’.
Rosie Boycott is a regular participant on BBC Two's Late
Review, she presents Radio Four’s A
Good Read and often contributes to TV and radio. Last
year she made one of the BBC’s Great Briton films
on Princess Diana.
In the past Rosie Boycott has chaired the Orange Prize
for Fiction and, whilst she was editor at Esquire magazine,
she pioneered the Esquire Prize for Non-Fiction.
Michael Portillo rose up the ranks of the
Conservative party, representing his constituency for 13
years until his defeat in 1997. As a Cabinet Minister he
was Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Secretary of State for
Employment and Secretary of State for Defence.
Portillo went on to make a name in journalism. In addition
to many articles and book reviews he made ‘Portillo’s
Progress’ (Channel 4, 1998), a three part series about
politics, a programme in the Great Railway Series (BBC, 1999),
which was partly a biography of his late father. Re-elected
to Parliament in 1999 Michael Portillo is MP for Kensington
and Chelsea. As well as having a weekly column in The
Scotsman, he has made television films about Wagner
and Queen Elizabeth I and is chairman of a chamber orchestra,
Sinfonia 21, which is involved in pioneering work at the
frontiers of music and science. Michael Portillo is a member
of the International Commission on Missing Persons in the
former Yugoslavia, which organises the identification of
massacre victims.
Tim Radford is science editor of the Guardian.
He was born in New Zealand in 1940, and trained as a journalist
on the New Zealand Herald. He has spent his working life
in weekly, evening and daily newspapers, except for a brief
period when he worked in the UK government information services
between 1968 and 1973. Since joining the Guardian Tim
has been (among other things) letters editor, arts editor,
and literary editor. Except for a brief interval, he has
also edited the Guardian's science pages since they
were launched in 1980.
Andrew Roberts’ biography of Winston
Churchill’s
foreign secretary, Lord Halifax, The Holy Fox was
published in 1991, followed by Eminent Churchillians in
1994. As well as appearing regularly on television and radio,
Roberts writes and reviews for The Sunday Telegraph,
and reviews for that paper as well as The Spectator,
Literary Review, Mail on Sunday and Daily Telegraph.
In 1999 he published Salisbury: Victorian Titan,
the biography of Lord Salisbury which won the Wolfson History
Prize and the James Stern Silver Pen Award for Non-Fiction. Napoleon
and Wellington was published in 2001 and Hitler
and Churchill: Secrets of Leadership earlier this
year.
Fiammetta Rocco was born in Kenya and read
Arabic at Oxford. She has been a journalist for twenty years
and in 1994, she was named British "Feature Writer
of the Year". Her
work has also been recognised twice by the Overseas Press
Club of America. She has written for the Independent
on Sunday, the Telegraph magazine and Vanity
Fair. She is now the literary editor of The Economist.
Her first book, "The Miraculous Fever Tree: Malaria, Medicine
and the Cure that Changed the World" will be published
by HarperCollins later this year. |
