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March 25, 1998
JURY PANEL ANNOUNCED FOR THE FIFTH ANNUAL GILLER
PRIZE
Jack Rabinovitch, founder of The Giller Prize, is
pleased to announce that in this fifth year of the prize, authors
Margaret Atwood and Guy Vanderhaeghe and writer/broadcaster Peter
Gzowski will comprise the 1998 jury. Margaret Atwood and Guy Vanderhaeghe
replace authors Bonnie Burnard and Mavis Gallant who served, with
Peter Gzowski, on last year's jury.
Margaret Atwood is the author of more than twenty-five
books - novels, short stories, poetry, literary criticism, social
history, and books for children. Her work has been published around
the world and has won many awards including the Governor-General's
Award, the Trillium Book Award, and the Sunday Times Award for Literary
Excellence in the U.K., and the prestigious Le Chevalier dans l'Ordre
des Arts et des Lettres in France. She won the 1996 Giller Prize
for her most recent novel, Alias Grace, which was also shortlisted
for the 1996 Booker Prize, the 1996 Governor-General's Award for
Fiction, the Orange Prize for Fiction, and just this month, for
the International IMPAC Dublin literary award, the world's richest
book prize. She lives in Toronto.
Peter Gzowski has worked primarily as a broadcaster
since 1971 and is best known for his 15 years as the host of CBC
Radio's former flagship program "Morningside." "Peter
Gzowski's Forum" now airs every Friday on CBC Radio One, and
on CBC Television, "Gzowski in Conversation" is scheduled
to make its on-air debut on April 26. Peter Gzowski has also published
twelve books, most recently The Morningside Years, and is
the founder of the Peter Gzowski Invitational Golf Tournaments,
which have raised $5 million for literacy. An Officer of the Order
of Canada, the recipient of a Governor-General's Performing Arts
Award, the winner of seven ACTRA Awards, and the recipient of the
George Peabody Award for his Outstanding Contribution to Broadcasting,
Peter Gzowski is serving his second year as a jury member. He lives
in Toronto.
Guy Vanderhaeghe published his first collection of
short stories, Man Descending, in 1982. That book won the
Governor-General's Award for Fiction and, in Britain, the Geoffrey
Faber Memorial Prize. Guy Vanderhaeghe is also the co-winner of
the 1990 City of Toronto Book Award for his novel Homesick,
and his play I Had A Job I Liked. Once. won the Canadian
Authors Association Prize for the best drama published in 1993.
His most recent publications are a play, Dancock's Dance,
and a novel, The Englishman's Boy, which won the 1996 Governor-General's
Award for Fiction, The Saskatchewan Book Award for Fiction, and
The Saskatchewan Book of the Year Award. That novel was also shortlisted
for The Giller Prize in 1996 and has recently been nominated for
the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Guy Vanderhaeghe
lives in Saskatoon.
Dates Confirmed
This year, the shortlist is scheduled to be announced at a press
conference in Toronto in early October. The winner will be announced
at a black-tie dinner and awards ceremony at Toronto's Four Seasons
Hotel, to be held on Tuesday, November 3, 1998.
Prize History
The Giller Prize awards $25,000 annually to the author of the best
Canadian novel or short story collection published in English. The
award was established in 1994 by Toronto businessman Jack Rabinovitch
in honour of his late wife, literary journalist Doris Giller.
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