TORONTO, Jan. 24, 2022 /CNW/ - Elana Rabinovitch,
Executive Director of the Scotiabank Giller Prize, today announced
the five-member jury panel for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
This year marks the 29th anniversary of The
Prize.
The 2022 jury members are:
Award winning Canadian authors Kaie
Kellough, Casey
Plett and Waubgeshig Rice and American authors
Katie Kitamura and
Scott Spencer.
Some background on the 2022 jury:
Kaie Kellough is a
novelist, poet, and sound performer. His work emerges at a
crossroads of social engagement and formal experiment. From
Western Canada, he lives in
Montréal and has roots in Guyana,
South America. His books include
Dominoes at the Crossroads (short fiction, Véhicule
2020), Magnetic Equator (poetry, McClelland and Stewart
2019), and Accordéon (novel, ARP 2016). He has
been awarded the Griffin Poetry Prize and the QWF Hugh MacLennan
Prize for Fiction. His work has been longlisted for the Scotiabank
Giller Prize, and nominated for several other national awards.
Kaie's vocal performance, recorded audio, and electronic narrative
explore migration and futurity. He creates mixed media compositions
with saxophonist and synthesist Jason
Sharp. Their collaborative audio-visual performances have
been filmed and broadcast by jazz festivals in Europe and Canada. Kaie has written plays for television
and librettos for large musical ensembles. His solo and group sound
performances have toured internationally.
Katie Kitamura's most
recent novel is Intimacies. One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of 2021 and a
Barack Obama recommended read, it
was longlisted for the National Book Award and the Joyce Carol
Oates Prize. Her third novel, A Separation, was a
finalist for the Premio von Rezzori and a New York Times Notable
Book. She is also the author of Gone To The Forest and
The Longshot, both finalists for the New York Public
Library's Young Lions Fiction Award. Her work has been translated
into nineteen languages and is being adapted for film and
television. A recipient of fellowships from the Lannan,
Santa Maddalena, and Jan Michalski foundations, Katie has written for
publications including The New York Times Book Review, The
New York Times, The Guardian, Granta,
BOMB, Triple Canopy, and Frieze. She teaches in the creative
writing program at New York
University.
Casey Plett is the
author of A Dream of a Woman, Little
Fish, A Safe Girl to Love, and the co-editor
of Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy From
Transgender Writers. She has written for The
New York Times, The
Guardian, The Globe and Mail, McSweeney's
Internet Tendency, the Winnipeg Free Press, and
other publications. A winner of the Amazon First Novel Award, the
Firecracker Award for Fiction, and a two-time winner of the Lambda
Literary Award, her work has also been nominated for the Scotiabank
Giller Prize. She splits her time between New York City and Windsor, Ontario.
Waubgeshig Rice is an author and journalist from
Wasauksing First Nation. He has written three fiction titles, and
his short stories and essays have been published in numerous
anthologies. His most recent novel, Moon of the Crusted
Snow, was published in 2018 and became a national bestseller.
He graduated from the journalism program at the university
formerly known as Ryerson in 2002 and
spent most of his journalism career with the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) as a video journalist
and radio host. He left CBC in 2020 to focus on his literary
career. He lives in Sudbury,
Ontario with his wife and two sons.
Scott Spencer is the
author of twelve novels, including Endless Love, Waking
the Dead, A Ship Made of Paper, and Man in the
Woods. He has been nominated for the National Book Award three
times and has taught at Columbia
University, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Williams College, the University of Virginia, and at Eastern Correctional
Facility as part of the Bard Prison Initiative. He lives with
writer Jo Ann Beard in upstate
New York.
Images of the 2022 jurors are available at
scotiabankgillerprize.ca/media-resources.
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.
The longlist will be presented at events in St. John's, Newfoundland in early September,
with the shortlist announced later in the month in Toronto, pending Public Health directives
related to COVID-19. The winner will be named at a nationally
televised black-tie dinner and awards ceremony in Toronto in November.
Submissions are now being accepted. The 2022 submission
package, including updated details, can be found
at scotiabankgillerprize.ca/about/submissions/. The first
submission deadline for books published between October 1, 2021, and February 28, 2022, are to be received by
February 18, 2022.
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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