Scotiabank Giller Prize Spotlight: Michael Christie September 12, 2019 Michael Christie’s previous novel, If I Fall, If I Die, was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Kirkus Prize, and the International [...]
Scotiabank Giller Prize Spotlight: Steven Price September 11, 2019 Steven Price is the author of two novels, By Gaslight (2016), longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and Into That Darkness (2011). Also [...]
Scotiabank Giller Prize Spotlight: Adam Foulds September 5, 2019 Adam Foulds is a poet and novelist from London, England, now resident in Toronto. He has been the recipient of a number of [...]
Scotiabank Giller Prize Spotlight: David Bezmozgis September 9, 2019 David Bezmozgis is an award-winning writer and filmmaker. His debut story collection, Natasha and Other Stories, won the Toronto Book Award and the [...]
Scotiabank Giller Prize Spotlight: André Alexis September 8, 2019 André Alexis was born in Trinidad and grew up in Canada. His most recent novel, Fifteen Dogs, won the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize [...]
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 ThĂşy, 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.