吉勒奖将会在11月10日宣布获奖作者。这一奖项的创立者Jack Rabinovitch先生在新闻发布会上，宣布了一项重大决定，从今年开始，吉勒奖的奖金会翻倍，从之前的5万加币增加到10万加币。他说，加拿大的小说家们值得这样的奖励。

二十年前，Rabinovitch为了纪念他去世的妻子多丽丝.吉勒（Doris Giller）而创立了这个奖项。吉勒生前是位文学编辑。每年奖励一部加拿大英文小说。

如果希望了解更多初选入围的12部作品，请阅读加拿大广播公司读书节目网站：

Waiting for the Man by Arjun Basu (ECW Press)
The Betrayers by David Bezmozgis (HarperCollins Canada)
American Innovations by Rivka Galchen (HarperCollins Canada)
Tell by Frances Itani (HarperCollins Canada)
Watch How We Walk by Jennifer LoveGrove (ECW Press)
Us Conductors by Sean Michaels (Random House Canada)
Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab by Shani Mootoo (Doubleday Canada)
The Girl Who Was Saturday Night by Heather O’Neill (HarperCollins Canada) ·
Paradise and Elsewhere by Kathy Page (John Metcalf Books/Biblioasis)
My October by Claire Holden Rothman (Penguin Canada)
All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews (Knopf Canada)
The Ever After of Ashwin Rao by Padma Viswanathan (Random House Canada)

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