TORONTO - Russell Banks, Victoria Glendinning and Alistair MacLeod will make up the jury for this year's Scotiabank Giller Prize.
The award, worth $50,000, celebrates outstanding novels and short story collections.
Banks, who lives in upstate New York, has written 16 works of fiction, including "The Sweet Hereafter," which was made into an Oscar-nominated movie starring Sarah Polley.
Glendinning is an English writer who has written several biographies and published three novels.
Born in Saskatchewan and raised in Nova Scotia, Macleod is the lone Canadian on the panel. He won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his 1999 novel "No Great Mischief."
The long list for the Giller will be announced on Sept. 21 and the short list on Oct. 6. The winner will be revealed Nov. 10. Metis author Joseph Boyden won last year's Giller for his novel "Through Black Spruce."
