•GLENDORA  BOOKS  SUPPLEMENT-

ISSUE  NUMBER  TWO • 1997

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reproduction to the Contest holders. In case
of publication, these authors will each
receive a single remuneration of DM500.

In the event that essays are published in

book form, their authors will receive an
additional fee of at least 8 per cent of the
sale price, proportionate to the length of
their essay in relation to the length of the
entire book.

Texture Requirements

Essays submitted must not exceed the

following limits in length:

70,000 characters in German,
64,000 characters in English, French or
Spanish,
62,000 characters in Russian
15,000 signs in Chinese,
54,000 characters in Arabic.
In addition, an abstract of no more than
two pages must be appended to each essay.

Essays must be submitted in sealed

envelopes. Text should contain no reference
to the author's name(s) or identity. Names
and address of sender should be supplied in
a separate, sealed envelope. Essays trans-
ferred via e-mail must be sent as attach-
ments.

Procedure of the Contest
All contributions will be anonymised by

the Contest's Secretariat furnished  with a
numeral code and then passed on to juries.
Award-winners will be chosen in a two-
step selection process. The Final Jury will
choose prize winners from a maximum of 49
entries.

1. Between December 1, 1998 and May
31, 1999, seven preparatory  sub-juries
(one for each Contest language) will
evaluate all contributions received in
their  respective language. Each jury
will then propose a selection of no less
than three essays to the Final Jury. The
sub-juries will be allocated  additional

essays for presentation to the Final Jury
in proportion to the total number of
entries received in their respective
language.

2. Entries selected by sub-juries will
subsequently be presented to the Final -
international and interdisciplinary -
Jury. The latter's final selection of
award-winners will be notified and
prizes presented at an official  ceremony
at Weimar towards the end of 1999.
The seven sub-juries and the Final Jury
will be composed and appointed by the
Contest organisers in the course of 1998,
in close cooperation with the Interna-
tional Essay Prize Contest's Board of
Curators.

Board of Curators:

Sadiq Al-Azm (Syria), Benjamin  Baber
(USA), Sergio Benvenuto (Italy), Carmen
Boullosa (Mexico), Boubacar Boris Diop
(Senegal), Jochen Gerz (Germany), Nilufer
Gole (Turkey), Agnes Heller (USA/Hungary),
Rebecca Horn (Germany), Kojin Karatani
(Japan), Santiago Kovadloff (Argentine),
Horst Kurnitzky (Germany), Liu Xiaofeng
(Hongkong/China), Fatima  Mernissi
(Morrocco), Masao Miyoshi (USA/Japan),
Edgar Morin (France), Gabriel Motzkin
(Israel), Pius Ngandu Nkashama (France/
Congo), Ryosuke Ohashi (Japan), Mikhail
Ryklin (Russia), Joachim Sartorius (Ger-
many), Juan Villoro (Mexico), Yang Lian
(UK/China), Yu Jian (China), Slavoj Zizek
(Slovenia)

Address of the International Essay Prize

Contest's Secretariat

International Essay Prize Contest -
Rosenthaler Strasse 13
10119 Berlin
Germany.
e-mail: Essay.Lettre@Weimarl999.de
Internet: www.weimarl999.de/Essay-
contest

Arts and Development

UNESCO's concern for the use of art as a

vehicle for engineering social progress
articulated at the end of the World
Decade for Cultural Development has

triggered a long line of activities worldwide,
altogether forming what has presently  gained
currency as Arts and Development.  The most
current being Arts and Development II: Perspec-
tives  Through  Theatre holding in Ibadan, Nigeria.
The venue, International Institute for Tropical
Agriculture (IITA) between February 21 and 26,
1998, hosts speakers and theatre practitioners  from

Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Cameroon, Zambia,
Ghana, the United States of America and En-
gland. Workshop chairman is Martin Banham,
theatre studies professor, University of Leeds,
England.

Since Tim Butchard submitted his report on

The Arts and Development  to the British  Council
in March 1995, consortia of arts practitioners
have met at different times to enrich the agenda
and to devise operational strategies in Lagos,
Harare, Chicago, Yaounde and London.