Maya Jaggi is an award-winning cultural journalist, critic, and artistic director in London, whose writing on global literature and art appears in the Guardian Review, Financial Times, New York Review of Books, and other publications. She is Critic at Large for Words Without Borders in New York. A former staff journalist on the Guardian, where she was a profile writer and fiction critic from 1999–2015, she has reported from five continents, interviewed Nobel Prize-winning and other authors including Orhan Pamuk, Toni Morrison, Umberto Eco, and Edward Said, and judged  literary awards including the Man Asian prize (as chair) and the Dublin IMPAC. Educated at Oxford University and the London School of Economics, she was described as ‘one of Britain’s most respected arts journalists,’ by the Open University, which awarded her an honorary doctorate for ‘extending the map of international writing.’ Twitter: @MayaJaggi