Meet the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize Jury

The 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize is pleased to announce the 2011 Jury members; American author and educator Howard Norman, Canadian novelist and short story writer Annabel Lyon, and Scottish writer and novelist Andrew O’Hagan.

(Media note: high-resolution photos of the jury are available on the Media Resources page)

Howard Norman

Howard Norman was born in the U.S. but moved to Toronto after leaving high school. His first two novels, The Northern Lights and The Bird Artist were each shortlisted for National Book Awards. His other novels include The Museum Guard, The Haunting of L, Devotion and most recently What Is Left the Daughter.  The setting of most of Norman’s novels is Atlantic Canada, Nova Scotia in particular.  Norman has also published two travel memoirs – My Famous Evening (Nova Scotia) and In Fond Remembrance of Me (the Canadian Arctic). His next memoir, I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place, will be published in 2012, along with a new novel, Next Life Might Be Kinder.  Mr. Norman is the recipient of the Lannan Award in fiction, the New England Book Award, and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. Howard Norman lives in Vermont.

Annabel Lyon

Annabel Lyon was born in Ontario but her family relocated to British Columbia when she was one-year old. She is the author of Oxygen (stories), The Best Thing for You (novellas) which was nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, All-Season Edie (juvenile novel), and The Golden Mean which was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General's Literary Award, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, and the Commonwealth Prize.  Winner of the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, The Golden Mean has been translated into fourteen languages. Lyon is currently working on a sequel to the book. Her latest work for young people, Encore Edie, was released in February 2011 to glowing reviews.  Annabel Lyon lives in New Westminster, BC

Andrew O’Hagan

Andrew O’Hagan was born in Glasgow in 1968. His first book, The Missing, was published in 1995 and shortlisted for the Esquire/Waterstone’s/Apple Non-Fiction Award. Our Fathers, his debut novel, was shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize. His second novel, Personality, was published in 2003 and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. In January of that year, Granta named him one of the 'Best of Young British Novelists' and in April he received the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. His third novel, Be Near Me, was published in August 2006 and won the Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction in 2008. His latest novel is The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe. Andrew O’Hagan lives in London.