Introducing the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize Jury - Seite 2

Nathan Englander is the author of the internationally bestselling story collection For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, the novel The Ministry of Special Cases, and the collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank. He's received the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His fiction has been widely anthologized, most recently in 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories, and has been translated into 20 languages. He's the author of the play The Twenty-Seventh Man, which premiered at New York's Public Theater, and translated the New American Haggadah (edited by Jonathan Safran Foer). He lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York.

Images of the 2017 jurors are available on the Media Resource page at www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca

This year's longlist will be released in September and the shortlist will be announced at a press event in Toronto in October. The finalists will be honoured and a winner named at a black-tie dinner and awards ceremony at Toronto's Ritz-Carlton on Tuesday, November 21, 2017.

Rakuten Kobo has generously donated a Kobo Aura eReader to each member of the 2017 jury panel. The Scotiabank Giller Prize requires publishers to provide digital copies of its submitted titles in addition to print books.

This year marks the 24^th anniversary of the Scotiabank Giller Prize.

Submissions are now being accepted! The 2017 submission package, including new and updated rules and details, can be found at Scotiabankgillerprize.ca/submissions.

About the Prize

The Scotiabank Giller Prize strives to highlight the very best in Canadian fiction year after year. The prize 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 and was founded in 1994 by her husband, Toronto businessman Jack Rabinovitch.

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