30r364 boek.qxd:awards book 11 - Prince Claus Fund

Contributing AuthorsShahidul Alam is a photographer, writer and activist. Starting photography in 1980, he won theHarvey Harris Trophy for best photographer of the year (London Arts Council, 1983). He waspresident of the Bangladesh Photographic Society, founded Drik Picture Library and establishedthe Pathshala: South Asian Institute of Photography. He is a director of the Chobi Mela festivalof photography in Asia, and founder chairman of Majority World. His work is shown internationallyand he has been chairman and four-time jury member of World Press Photo. Honorary Fellow ofthe Bangladesh Photographic Society, he won the Andrea Frank Foundation Award and the HowardChapnick Award in 1998, and was awarded the Honorary Fellowship of the Royal PhotographicSociety for his contribution to photography (2001). He is visiting professor of Sunderland University(UK) and Regent's Lecturer at UCLA (USA) and on the advisory board for the W. Eugene SmithMemorial Fund and the National Geographic Society.John Berger is a writer, artist, filmmaker and cultural critic. His art studies include Ways of Seeing,The Success and Failure of Picasso and (with photographer Jean Mohr) Another Way of Telling;among other non-fiction writings are A Fortunate Man and A Seventh Man: Migrant Workers inEurope, and numerous essay collections such as The Shape of a Pocket. Poetry fills Pages of theWound while books like And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos contain poetry and prose. Hisnovels include G. (1972 Booker Prize and James Tait Black Memorial Prize), Into Their Labours,To the Wedding and From A to X. Berger has collaborated with theatre-directors and composers,the late artist Juan Munoz and filmmaker Alain Tanner (La Salamandre, The Middle of the Worldand Jonah who will be 25 in the year 2000). He won the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction (1989)and Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award (2002).Supriya Chaudhuri is Professor of English, Co-ordinator of the Centre of Advanced Study at theDepartment of English, and Director of the School of Languages, Jadavpur University, Calcutta.Educated in Calcutta and at Oxford, where she took her graduate and doctoral degrees, shecommenced her teaching career at Presidency College, Calcutta, and has advised on researchand higher education policies at the university level in India. She has been a Visiting Fellow atthe University of Cambridge. Her areas of specialisation are Renaissance studies, philosophy,modern critical theory, cinema, sport, translation, cultural history and contemporary fiction,and she has published widely in these fields. She writes in both English and her mother tongueBengali, and translates between the two, especially for the series Oxford Tagore Translations.She also reviews contemporary fiction, especially new Indian writing in English, and has actedas a judge for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.José Benjamín Cuéllar Martínez, born in El Salvador, studied Jurisprudence and Social Sciences atthe University of El Salvador, and Political Sciences and Public Administration at Mexico’s AutónomaUniversity. He worked in social and human rights in El Salvador (1972-83) and was founding ExecutiveSecretary of Mexico’s “Fray Francisco de Vitoria” Centre for Human Rights (1984-91). In 1992,he returned to El Salvador to run the Human Rights Institute at the Central American University(IDHUCA), a post he continues to hold. Under his leadership, the IDHUCA won France’s 2004 HumanRights Award and Lawyers of the World Association’s 2002 Human Rights Award. Member of theBoard and Vice-President (1998-2002) of the Centre for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) inWashington DC, Cuéllar Martínez heads the El Salvador Independent Monitoring Group (GMIES), hasworked with institutions in America, Europe and Asia, held university posts and published widely.1342008 Prince Claus Awards