Rosalie Abella David
Staines Rudy
Wiebe 2003
Shorlist 2003
News
Rosalie
Silberman Abella
Author, Judge
Rosalie Abella was appointed to the
Ontario Family Court Bench in 1976 at the age of 29, making
her Canada's youngest (and first Jewish female) judge. In
1992, she was promoted to the Court of Appeal. Justice Abella
chaired the Ontario Labour Relations Board and the Ontario
Law Reform Commission. She has been a member of numerous
organizations, including the Ontario Human Rights Commission,
the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada and is a specially-elected
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. As sole commissioner
of the 1984 Royal Commission on Equality in Employment,
she created the concept of 'employment equity'. Justice
Abella is a frequent lecturer in Canada and abroad, and
has 18 honourary doctorates. A prodigious reader, Justice
Abella has also written or co-edited four books and more
than seventy articles. Justice Abella lives in Toronto with
her husband Irving Abella.
David
Staines
Author
David Staines has been the Dean of Arts at
the University of Ottawa since 1996. Staines, along with
the late Mordecai Richler, was a member of the original
Giller Prize jury in 1994, the inaugural year of the Prize,
and for the following two years. As one of the longest standing
members of the Giller Prize Advisory Board, Staines was
instrumental in setting up the Prize. He has been a Teaching
Fellow and Associate Professor at Harvard University, an
Honorary Research Fellow at University College London and
a Five-College Professor at Amherst College, Hampshire College,
University of Massachusetts, Mount Holyoke College and Smith
College. Staines sits on numerous editorial and advisory
boards including the Journal of Canadian Poetry, the New
Canadian Library and Studies in Medieval and Renaissance
Teaching. Staines has lectured widely in North America on
contemporary Canadian, romantic and medieval literature
and is the author, editor and anthologist of more than 100
books, articles and reviews. David Staines currently lives
in Ottawa.
Rudy
Wiebe
Author
Rudy Wiebe is an internationally-published
writer whose studies in theology, creative writing and English
took him to schools in Alberta, Manitoba, Iowa and Germany.
He has written nine novels, is an essayist, anthologist
and professor, and has lectured in 24 countries around the
world. Wiebe was made an Officer of The Order of Canada
in 2000. He has won the Governor-General's Award for Fiction
twice: in 1973 for The Temptations of Big Bear and
in 1994 for A Discovery of Strangers. In 1995, Wiebe
was inducted into the Edmonton Cultural Hall of Fame. His
1998 work Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman,
which Wiebe wrote with Yvonne Johnson, won numerous accolades
including the Viacom Canada Book Award. Wiebe has written
two made-for-tv movie screenplays and last year had three
other scripts optioned for films. He has been published
in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Rudy Wiebe
currently lives in Edmonton with his wife Tena.
Printer-friendly
version of this page
Rosalie Abella
David Staines
Rudy Wiebe
2003 Shorlist
2003
News
|