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13/03/2006
Actress Fiona Shaw to join Booker judging panel
Cork actress Fiona Shaw will be on the 2006 panel which chooses the winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
The judging panel will be chaired by writer and academic Hermione Lee.
Poet and novelist Simon Armitage, novelist Candia McWilliams and critic Anthony Quinn will also be judging.
Shaw has most recently been on screen as Harry's wicked Aunt Petunia in the Harry Potter series of films and will next be seen in Brian De Palma's The Black Dahlia.
Primarily a theatre actress, her work has been honoured with four Laurence Olivier Awards (Electra, As You Like It, The Good Person of Sichaun and Machinal), three London Critics Awards (Electra, The Good Person of Sichuan and Hedda Gabler) and two London Evening Standard Awards (Machinal and Medea).
She has been presented with doctorates from the National University of Ireland and Trinity College Dublin, where she was also named Honorary Professor of Drama.
Last year's winner of the Man Booker was Irish author John Banville's The Sea.
The longlist of titles under serious consideration for the prize will be announced in mid-August; the shortlist will be announced in mid-September.
The winner of the Man Booker Prize 2006 will be announced at an awards dinner on 10 October in London.
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