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Giller may refer to: People * Agaton Giller (1831-1887), patriotic Polish activist * Doris Giller, Canadian literary critic ** Scotiabank Giller Prize, an annual Canadian English language literary award * Edward B. Giller (1918-2017), United States Air Force general * Stefan Giller (1833-1918), Polish Romantic poet * Walter Giller (1927–2011), German actor Other uses * Giller (fishing), a 19th-century term used in the Chesapeake Bay area for a gillnet fisherman * Giller (mountain) Giller may refer to: People * Agaton Giller (1831-1887), patriotic Polish activist * Doris Giller, Canadian literary critic ** Scotiabank Giller Prize, an annual Canadian English language literary award * Edward B. Giller (1918-2017), United Stat ..., a mountain in the Rhenish Massif, North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse, Germany {{disambiguation, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agaton Giller
Agaton Giller (Opatówek, Congress Poland, Russian Empire, 1831 – 1887, Stanisławów, Austro-Hungary) was a Polish historian, journalist and politician. He and his brother Stefan Giller played notable roles in the Polish independence movement and in the January 1863 Uprising. Life He was a participant in the January Uprising and was one of the leaders of the "Red" faction among the insurrectionists as a member of the Central National Committee (''Komitet Centralny Narodowy'') and the Provisional National Government (''Tymczasowy Rząd Narodowy''). After being exiled to Siberia by the Imperial Russian authorities, he became the first Siberian historian and biographer of other deported Poles. Later, in exile in Paris, he was a journalist with such periodicals as ''Ojczyzna'' (The Fatherland) and ''Kurier Paryski'' (The Paris Courier), a founder of Polish self-assistance organizations, and a founder of the Polish National Museum in Rapperswil, in Switzerland's Canton of St. G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doris Giller
Doris Giller (22 January 1931 – 25 April 1993) was a Canadian journalist, who was best known as a literary editor for the ''Montreal Gazette'' and the ''Toronto Star'' and as the namesake of the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Giller was born in Montreal, Quebec on 22 January 1931 to Russian Jewish immigrants Nancy and Edward Giller. Giller first entered journalism in 1963 as a reporter and feature writer for the ''Montreal Star'', eventually working her way up to positions as night editor, lifestyles editor and entertainment editor, also working as the paper's correspondent in Israel for a time in 1972. After the ''Montreal Star'' demise in 1979, she joined the ''Gazette'' as book review editor, expanding and relaunching the paper's books section. Giller and her husband Jack Rabinovitch Jack Rabinovitch (24 June 1930 – 6 August 2017) OC, O.Ont was a Canadian philanthropist best known for founding the Giller Prize which is named after his late wife, Doris Giller, who was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scotiabank Giller Prize
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. Since its inception, the Giller Prize has been awarded to emerging and established authors from both small independent and large publishing houses in Canada. History From 1994 to 2004, the prize included a bronze figure created by artist Yehouda Chaki. The current prize includes a trophy designed by Soheil Mosun. On September 22, 2005, the Giller Prize established an endorsement deal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward B
Edward is an English given name. It is derived from the Anglo-Saxon name ''Ēadweard'', composed of the elements '' ēad'' "wealth, fortune; prosperous" and '' weard'' "guardian, protector”. History The name Edward was very popular in Anglo-Saxon England, but the rule of the Norman and Plantagenet dynasties had effectively ended its use amongst the upper classes. The popularity of the name was revived when Henry III named his firstborn son, the future Edward I, as part of his efforts to promote a cult around Edward the Confessor, for whom Henry had a deep admiration. Variant forms The name has been adopted in the Iberian peninsula since the 15th century, due to Edward, King of Portugal, whose mother was English. The Spanish/Portuguese forms of the name are Eduardo and Duarte. Other variant forms include French Édouard, Italian Edoardo and Odoardo, German, Dutch, Czech and Romanian Eduard and Scandinavian Edvard. Short forms include Ed, Eddy, Eddie, Ted, Teddy and Ned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefan Giller
Stefan Giller (1833–1918) was born in Opatówek, Congress Poland, Russian Empire. With his elder brother, Agaton Giller, Stefan played an active role in the Polish independence movement and in the January 1863 Uprising. Life Stefan Giller was a poet, an epigone of Polish Romanticism, a teacher of Polish language and literature at schools in Kalisz when the Imperial Russia The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the List of Russian monarchs, Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended th ...n government sought to eradicate the Polish language from public life. He was highly valued and respected by his students, who included the future president of Poland, Stanisław Wojciechowski, the future chancellor of the University of Vilnius, Alfons Parczewski, and many leading physicians and lawyers. In 1997, librarians from Opatówek found many documen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Giller
Walter Giller (23 August 1927 – 15 December 2011) was a German actor. He was very successful in the 1950s and 1960s, when he was often seen as a comedic leading man. One of his most successful and more serious roles was in ''Roses for the Prosecutor''. Giller was born in Recklinghausen. In 1956, he married actress Nadja Tiller; they had two children and appeared together in a number of films. The couple resided in Lugano, Switzerland for many years. In 2009, he was diagnosed with lung cancer. He underwent a major (but unsuccessful) operation. He died in Hamburg in 2011, aged 84. Selected filmography * ''Artists' Blood'' (1949) * ''Kein Engel ist so rein'' (1950) * ''The Girl from the South Seas'' (1950) .... Lothar * ''Insel ohne Moral'' (1950) .... Dicky * ''Falschmünzer am Werk'' (1951) .... Conny Hauser * ''Die Frauen des Herrn S.'' (1951) .... Platon * ''Sensation in San Remo'' (1951) .... Ernst * ''Wildwest in Oberbayern'' (1951) .... 2.Aufnahmeleiter Schmittchen * ' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giller (fishing)
Giller is a 19th-century term for a person who fishes using a gillnet, as used in the Chesapeake Bay region from the early 19th to the mid-20th centuries. Gillers worked individually or in groups of two or three men using a small boat from which they set and gathered a gillnet. Gillnets first appeared on the Potomac River in 1838 to fish for American shad, and rapidly became the most popular type of fishing gear in the bay region because they allowed the independent fisherman to work with limited resources, following the fish with his boat and net as they moved from place to place in search of food or to spawn. Gillnet fishing in Chesapeake Bay shad fisheries frequently led to conflict among states bordering the bay, with Pennsylvania seiners blaming Maryland gillers for over-harvesting and blocking shad passage upstream into the Susquehanna River, and Maryland gillers blaming Virginia pound-netters for intercepting fish on their northward migration up the bay. Conflicts sometimes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giller (mountain)
Giller may refer to: People * Agaton Giller (1831-1887), patriotic Polish activist * Doris Giller, Canadian literary critic ** Scotiabank Giller Prize, an annual Canadian English language literary award * Edward B. Giller (1918-2017), United States Air Force general * Stefan Giller (1833-1918), Polish Romantic poet * Walter Giller (1927–2011), German actor Other uses * Giller (fishing) Giller is a 19th-century term for a person who fishes using a gillnet, as used in the Chesapeake Bay region from the early 19th to the mid-20th centuries. Gillers worked individually or in groups of two or three men using a small boat from which th ..., a 19th-century term used in the Chesapeake Bay area for a gillnet fisherman * Giller (mountain), a mountain in the Rhenish Massif, North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse, Germany {{disambiguation, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
