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Maya Jaggi is a writer, literary critic and editor who, as one of Britain's most respected cultural journalists,〔 is "an influential voice on world literature".〔(Maya Jaggi profile, ) ''The Guardian''.〕 In the words of the Open University, she "has had a transformative influence in the last 25 years in extending the map of international writing today".〔("Cultural journalist Maya Jaggi receives OU Honorary Doctorate" ), The Open University, 3 April 2012.〕 She has been a contributor to many publications including ''The Guardian'', ''Financial Times'', ''The Independent'', ''The Economist'' and ''Newsweek''. She is also a broadcaster and presenter on radio and television. Jaggi is the niece of actor and food writer Madhur Jaffrey.〔("Memories-on-sea: Lake District – Maya Jaggi" ), ''The Guardian'', 18 August 2008.〕〔("Madhur" ), Mygola.〕 ==Life and career== Born in London,〔("About the Author" ), ''Anthills of the Savannah'' (Penguin Modern Classics), Amazon.〕 where her parents settled after migrating from India,〔 Maya Jaggi was educated at Oxford University and the London School of Economics.〔(Biographical notes ), ''Newsweek'' magazine, 2 January 2012.〕 Her first job, in the 1980s, was as Literary Editor of the journal ''Third World Quarterly'',〔(Advisory board ), ''Wasafiri''.〕 where she "created a literature section that embraced Latin America as part of the global South", commissioning and publishing work by and about major writers.〔("Maya Jaggi. A Cultural Journalist on World Literature via Spain" ), ''New Spanish Books''.〕 In the late 1990s, she joined the staff of ''The Guardian'', working on the foreign news desk while also writing for the paper's cultural pages.〔 Since 2000 Jaggi has built a freelance career reporting on arts and culture from five continents〔 and has earned acclaim for her long-form arts profiles, written particularly for the ''Guardian Review''.〔(Judges: 2013 ), The Caine Prize.〕〔 In addition, she has contributed articles and reviews to a wide range of publications, among them the ''Financial Times'', ''The Independent'', ''The Economist'', ''The Times Literary Supplement'', ''The Observer'', ''The Sunday Times'', the ''Daily Telegraph'', ''Index on Censorship'', the ''Literary Review'', the ''Evening Standard'', ''Newsweek'', the ''Wall Street Journal'', ''Bookforum'', and ''Wasafiri'' magazine. She has interviewed a dozen Nobel Prize-winners for literature, including Gunter Grass, Mario Vargas Llosa, Jose Saramago, Toni Morrison, Derek Walcott, V. S. Naipaul, Kenzaburō Ōe, and Orhan Pamuk (before he won the prize),〔 as well as other celebrated authors and scholars including Chinua Achebe, Umberto Eco, Tom Stoppard, W. G. Sebald, James Kelman, Alice Walker, Nuruddin Farah, Mahmoud Darwish, Hanan al-Shaykh, Elias Khoury, Alaa al-Aswany, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Amin Maalouf, Isabel Allende, Henry Louis Gates Jr, Eric Hobsbawm, George Steiner, Jeanette Winterson, Caryl Phillips, Kazuo Ishiguro, Arundhati Roy, Walter Mosley, Terry McMillan, Amy Tan, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Aminatta Forna, Romesh Gunesekera, Junot Diaz and Edward Said (the latter praising her profile of him as "in a class of its own"),〔〔(Judges, The Harvill Secker Young Translators’ Prize: Arabic to English ), 6 June 2011.〕 and practitioners of diverse art forms, such as filmmaker Costa Gavras, musician Abdullah Ibrahim, painter Frank Bowling, dancer Carlos Acosta, and Oprah Winfrey. Several of Jaggi's literary profiles have appeared in such collections as ''Lives and Works'' (2002), ''Writing Across Worlds: Contemporary Writers Talk'' (ed. Susheila Nasta, 2004) and ''Women of the Revolution: Forty Years of Feminism'' (ed. Kira Cochrane, 2010). The 2001 Penguin Modern Classics edition of Chinua Achebe's ''Anthills of the Savannah'' has an introduction by Jaggi.〔〔Maya Jaggi, ("Emerging Voices: Literature has liberated Africa’s authors" ), ''The Financial Times'', 30 January 2015.〕 In September 2004 she was one of 50 Black and Asian writers celebrated for their contribution to the canon of contemporary British literature in a photograph at the British Library entitled "A Great Day".〔("A Great Day" ), Renaissance One.〕〔Andrea Levy, ("Made in Britain" ), ''The Guardian'', 18 September 2004.〕〔Kevin Le Gendre, "Books: A great day for a family get together; Who are the movers and shakers in black British writing? And can they all fit on one staircase?", ''The Independent on Sunday'', 17 October 2004.〕 Her work as a broadcaster encompasses contributions to such BBC radio programmes as ''The Strand'',〔("The Strand Archive" ) (podcast), BBC World Service, 26 April 2011.〕 ''Front Row'', ''Night Waves'', ''Off the Page'', ''Any Questions?'' and ''The World Tonight'',〔〔 and she was writer-presenter of the television documentary ''Isabel Allende: The Art of Reinvention'' (BBC Four, 2003).〔(Contributor biography ), Brick 76.〕 In 2009, Jaggi's interview with cultural theorist Stuart Hall was the subject of a 258-minute film by Mike Dibb entitled ''Personally Speaking: A Long Conversation with Stuart Hall''.〔("Personally Speaking: A Long Conversation with Stuart Hall (2009)" ), IMDb.〕〔("Personally Speaking – Clip – Stuart Hall on the Obama Phenomenon" ), YouTube.〕 Jaggi has served as an adviser to the London Arts Board and the British Council, an executive member of English PEN〔(Maya Jaggi biography ) at Saif Ghobash–Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation. The Banipal Trust for Arab Literature.〕 and as a judge for numerous literary awards: the Orange Prize, the David Cohen Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize,〔Maya Jaggi, ("No thanks, ma'am" ), Our Daily Read, 15 June 2005.〕 the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Saif Ghobash–Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation,〔Maya Jaggi, ("Lost and found in translation" ), ''The Guardian'', 17 November 2007.〕 the Amnesty International UK Media Awards,〔("Media Awards Shortlist Announced" ), Amnesty International UK, 16 May 2001.〕 the Harvill Secker Young Translators' Prize,〔(Harvill Secker Young Translators' Prize 2011 ), Vintage.〕 the Warwick Prize for Writing,〔("Blogger & Maths Prof Join Weird Fiction Writer as Judges of Warwick's £50,000 Writing Prize" ), News & Events, Warwick.〕 the ''Wasafiri'' New Writing Prize,〔("The Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2012" ), ''Wasafiri''.〕 the Man Asian Literary Prize,〔("Prize winning cultural journalist and novelists announced as judges for the 2012 Man Asian Literary Prize" ), The Man Asian Literary Prize, 14 May 2012.〕〔("2012 Man Asian Literary Prize Shortlist Announcement ). Dr. Maya Jaggi, Chair Judge of the 2012 Man Asian Literary Prize, announces the shortlist via video conference from Man Group offices in London and Hong Kong."〕 the Caine Prize for African Writing,〔("Maya Jaggi, Judge 2012, Cultural journalist and critic" ), The Caine Prize, 25 June 2012.〕 the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award,〔("Impac prize judge Maya Jaggi: how we chose this year's winner" ), Books blog, ''The Guardian'', 12 June 2014.〕 and others.〔("2014 Judging Panel" ), International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.〕 She participates regularly in literary festivals,〔〔Maya Jaggi, ("Yugonostalgia: Letter From Croatia" ), ''Literary Review''.〕 presents seminars and live events,〔("Watch: Hwang Sun-mi with Maya Jaggi at LBF 2014" ), English PEN, 30 May 2014.〕〔("Highlights: Edinburgh Taster: Elias Khoury and Bahaa Taher" ), YouTube. Maya Jaggi moderating discussion at the Frontline Club.〕 and is a board member of ''Wasafiri'' magazine and a patron of the SI Leeds Literary Prize.〔("Maya Jaggi" ), SI Leeds Literary Prize.〕 She is also a member of the Folio Prize Academy.〔Caroline Carpenter, ("Big names turn out for Folio Prize Festival" ), ''The Bookseller'', 5 December 2013.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maya Jaggi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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