Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of
the Prize
TORONTO, Jan. 24,
2023 /CNW/ - Elana
Rabinovitch, Executive Director of the Scotiabank Giller
Prize, today announced the five-member jury panel for the 2023
Scotiabank Giller Prize. Twenty-twenty-three marks the
30th anniversary of the Prize, founded by the late
Toronto businessman Jack Rabinovitch in honour of his wife,
Doris Giller, a literary
journalist.
The Scotiabank Giller Prize celebrates the best in Canadian
fiction – both long format and short stories. Past winners of the
Prize include Margaret Attwood,
Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje, and
Mordecai Richler.
Chairing the jury panel is the incomparable and award-winning
writer of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, Ian Williams. Ian won the Scotiabank Giller
Prize in 2019 for his arresting novel, Reproduction. He is
currently a tenured professor at The University of Toronto.
Joining Ian on the jury are fellow Canadian writers
Sharon Bala and
Brian Thomas Isaac. Sharon's debut
novel, The Boat People, won the Harper Lee Prize for Legal
Fiction and the 2020 Newfoundland & Labrador Book Award, has
been listed for a torrent of awards and prizes and is published
worldwide in translation.
Brian Thomas
Isaac exploded onto the scene in 2022 with his
bestselling debut novel, All the Quiet Places. Aside from
being longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and winning the
Indigenous Voices Award, his career includes bull riding,
bricklaying and working in the Northern
Alberta oil fields
Rounding out the international component for the 30th
anniversary jury panel are Rebecca
Makkai and Neel Mukherjee. Rebecca was a finalist
for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Her novel
The Great Believers won the ALA Carnegie Medal, the
Stonewall Book Award, the Clark Prize, the L.A. Times Book Prize
and was one of The New York Times' 10
Best Books of 2018.
Neel Mukherjee is the author of several works, most
recently Avian, his book for the Cahiers Series. He has been
shortlisted for the Booker Prize and has won the Royal Society of
Literature's Encore Award and the Writers' Guild of Great Britain
Award. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Audible.ca will provide each jury member with a
complimentary one-year membership to listen to available
submissions, as well as titles by other Canadian writers. For all
listeners, Audible.ca has a dedicated Scotiabank Giller Prize
page for easy discovery of some of Canada's most exciting literary voices.
Kobo will be providing each jury with an eReader for their
reading duties.
The longlist will be presented at an event in early September,
with the shortlist announced later in the month. The winner will be
named during a nationally televised black-tie dinner and awards
ceremony honouring the finalists in Toronto in November. Visit
scotiabankgillerprize.ca/important-dates/ for information
regarding important dates and events.
Submissions for the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize are now being
accepted. The 2023 submission package, including updated
details, can be found at scotiabankgillerprize.ca. The first
submission deadline for books published between October 1,2022 and February 28, 2023, is February 17, 2023.
About the Prize
The Giller Prize, founded by Jack
Rabinovitch in 1994, highlights the very best in Canadian
fiction year after year. In 2005, the prize teamed up with
Scotiabank who increased the winnings four-fold. The Scotiabank
Giller Prize now awards $100,000
annually to the author of the best Canadian novel or short story
collection published in English, and $10,000 to each of the finalists. The award is
named in honour of the late literary journalist Doris Giller by her husband Toronto businessman Jack
Rabinovitch, who passed away in August 2017.
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