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Ian Williams to chair 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize jury

Canadians Sharon Bala and Brian Thomas Isaac are also on this year's jury, alongside international writers Rebecca Makkai and Neel Mukherjee.

Canadians Sharon Bala and Brian Thomas Isaac are also on the 5-person jury panel

Ian Williams celebrates winning the 2019 Giller Prize for his book Reproduction at a gala ceremony in Toronto. (Chris Young/Canadian Press)

Ian Williams will chair the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize jury.

The $100,000 prize is the biggest in Canadian literature.

Williams is awriter and teacher from Brampton, Ont. Hewon the Giller Prize in 2019 for his novel Reproduction. Hisother books include thepoetry collectionPersonals,theshort fiction collectionNot Anyone's Anything and the essay collectionDisorientation. He is currently a professor at the University of Toronto.

Joining Williams on the jury are Canadian writers Sharon Bala and Brian Thomas Isaac and American author Rebecca Makkai and Indian writerNeel Mukherjee.

A composite image of a woman with shoulder-length brown hair and bangs in a blue sweater and a man with gray hair and glasses in a black and blue striped dress shirt.
Sharon Bala, left, and Brian Thomas Isaac are two Canadian writers on the 2023 Giller Prize jury. (Nadra Ginting, Touchwood Editions)

Bala is a writer from Newfoundland. She is the author of the novel The Boat People, which won the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and the Newfoundland & Labrador Book Award. The Boat People was also championed by singer and TV hostMozhdah Jamalzadah on Canada Reads 2018.

Isaac was born on the Okanagan Indian Reserve, in south central B.C. He's worked in oil fields, as a bricklayer, and he had a short career riding bulls in local rodeos. As a lover of sports, he has coached minor hockey.All the Quiet Placesis his first book.

All the Quiet Placeswas ontheCanada Reads2022 longlistandthe2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize longlistand wasa finalist forthe 2022 Governor General's Literary Award for fiction.

A composite photo of a brunette woman in a blue dress and a man with short dark hair in a blazer leaning against a blue wall.
Rebecca Makkai, left, and Neel Mukherjee are the two international writers on the 2023 Giller Prize jury. (Brett Simison, Nick Tucker/WW Norton)

Makkai is the author of the novels The Great Believers, The Hundred-Year House and The Borrower. The Great Believers was a finalistforthe Pulitzer Prize and the U.S. National Book Award. Makkai lives in Chicago, where she teaches atNorthwestern University and is the artistic director of the nonprofit writing organization StoryStudio Chicago.

Mukherjee is the author of the novels A Life Apart, The Lives of Others andPast Continuous.The Lives of Others was a finalist for the Booker Prize and the Costa Best Novel Award.

2023 will mark the 30th anniversary of the Giller Prize.

Books published betweenOct.1, 2022 and Sept.30, 2023will be eligible for the 2023 prize. The longlist, shortlist and winner will be announced in the fall.

Jack Rabinovitch founded the prize in honour of his late wife Doris Giller in 1994. Rabinovitchdied in 2017 at the age of 87.

The 2022 winner was Calgary writer Suzette Mayr for her novelThe Sleeping Car Porter.

Other past Giller Prize winners include Omar El Akkad forWhat Strange Paradise, Souvankham Thammavongsa forHow to Pronounce Knife,Esi EdugyanforWashington BlackandHalf-Blood Blues,Margaret AtwoodforAlias Grace, Ian Williams forReproductionandAlice MunroforRunaway.

The Giller Prize is currently hosting a monthly virtual book club featuring the 2022 longlisted writers.

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