Doris Giller (22 January 1931 – 25 April 1993) was a

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journalist, who was best known as a

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for the ''

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'' and the ''

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'' and as the namesake of the

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 be ...

. Giller was born in

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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 ''The Montreal Star'' was an English-language Canadian newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It closed in 1979 in the wake of an eight-month pressmen's strike. It was Canada's largest newspaper until the 1950s and remained the dominan ...

'', eventually working her way up to positions as night editor, lifestyles editor and entertainment editor, also working as the paper's correspondent in

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

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 a literary columnist for the ''Toronto Star''. ...

moved to Toronto in 1985, where Giller joined the ''Toronto Star'' as a books editor and columnist in 1988. She remained with the paper until her death in 1993 of cancer.

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