Giller Prize

Giller Prize
Awarded for	English-language Canadian fiction including translations
Country	Canada
Presented by	Scotiabank and the Giller Prize Foundation
First awarded	November 1994; 30 years ago (1994)
Website	scotiabankgillerprize.ca

The Giller Prize (sponsored as the Scotiabank Giller Prize) is a literary award given to a Canadian author of a novel or short story collection published in English (including translation) the previous year, after an annual juried competition between publishers who submit entries. The prize was established in 1994 by Toronto businessman Jack Rabinovitch in honour of his late wife Doris Giller, a former literary editor at the Toronto Star, and is awarded in November of each year along with a cash reward (then CAN$25,000) with the winner being presented by the previous year's winning author.^[1]

Since its inception, the Giller Prize has been awarded to emerging and established authors from both small independent and large publishing houses in Canada.