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Scotiabank Giller Prize Spotlight: K.D. Miller September 7, 2019 K.D. Miller’s short stories have been nominated for the Journey Prize, published widely in Canadian magazines and broadcast by CBC. She has published [...]

Scotiabank Giller Prize Spotlight: Zalika Reid-Benta September 6, 2019 Zalika Reid-Benta is a Toronto-based writer whose work has appeared on CBC Books, in TOK: Writing the New Toronto, and in [...]

In honour of International Women’s Day, we want to celebrate the women authors who have won the Scotiabank Giller Prize since 1994. These women have helped put Canadian literature on the map for international readers and we are so proud of their accomplishments.

Lisa Moore is the acclaimed author of the novels Caught, February, and Alligator. Caught was a finalist for Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction and the Scotiabank Giller Prize and is now a major CBC television series starring Allan Hawco. February won CBC’s Canada Reads competition, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and was named a New Yorker Best Book of the Year, and a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book. Alligator was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (Canada and the Caribbean), and was a national bestseller. Her story collection Open was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and a national bestseller. She lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland.

Lisa Moore has been selected for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize for her novel Something for Everyone.

Kim Thúy, born in Saigon, left Vietnam in 1968 with the boat people at the age of ten and settled with her family in Quebec. A graduate in translation and law, she has worked as a seamstress, interpreter, lawyer, restaurant owner, and commentator on radio and television. She lives in Montreal and devotes herself to writing.

Kim has been selected for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist for her novel Vi.

Patrick DeWitt was born on Vancouver Island in 1975. He is the author of three critically acclaimed novels: Undermajordomo Minor, Ablutions, and The Sisters Brothers, which won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and the Stephen Leacock Medal, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

Patrick has been selected for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist for his novel French Exit.

Raised in Alberta, Emma Hooper is a musician and writer. As a musician, her solo project “Waitress for the Bees” tours internationally and has earned her a Finnish Cultural Knighthood. Her debut novel, Etta and Otto and Russell and James, was an international bestseller and was published in 24 countries. She is a research-lecturer at Bath Spa University but comes home to Canada to cross-country ski as much as she can afford.

Emma has been selected for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist for her novel, Our Homesick Songs.

Thea Lim’s writing has been published by the Paris Review, the Guardian, Salon, the National Post, LitHub, Electric Literature, the Millions, the Southampton Review and others. Her novella The Same Woman was released by Invisible Publishing in 2007. She holds an MFA from the University of Houston, and she grew up in Singapore and lives in Toronto, where she is a professor of creative writing. Thea has been selected for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist for her novel, An Ocean of Minutes.

Esi Edugyan won the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2011 for her novel Half-Blood Blues. The novel was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction. She author lives in Victoria, BC.

Esi has been selected for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist for his novel, Washington Black.