The 2020 jury produced an outstanding shortlist and we look forward to celebrating all five authors tonight at 9 p.m. EST during a live broadcast. The evening will be hosted by Canadian actor, Eric McCormack with performances by Canadian jazz pianist and singer, Diana Krall.
Each year, we gift the Scotiabank Giller Prize shortlisted authors a leather-bound copy of their book as a keepsake to commemorate the experience. Since 2000, the Scotiabank Giller Prize has been working with the amazing team at Felton Bookbinding to create these beautiful pieces of work. Bookbinding is a fascinating art form that not a lot of people know about. So, we asked Keith at Felton Bookbinding a few questions. We wanted to share his answers with you in hopes that you might learn something new.
Each year, Giller Light Bash events are held across Canada on the evening of the Scotiabank Giller Prize Gala, but like most events this year, the Giller Light Bash will take place virtually. Although you won't be able to gather in person, this is still a great opportunity to connect with fellow book lovers while watching the Scotiabank Giller Prize broadcast and raising funds for this worthwhile cause.
Hosted by Jael Richardson, Between the Pages: An Evening with the Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalists will be an hour of readings, questions and answers and will take you inside the minds and creative lives of the writers on the 2020 shortlist.
In the midst of our award season, it's important to us to continue highlighting our incredible Canadian talent. We hope that you add some of these titles to your TBR list on top of the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize shortlist. Here is a list of the books being released in October 2020!
Seth's graphic novel, Clyde Fans has been longlisted for the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Seth is the cartoonist behind the comic book series Palookaville, which started in the stone age as a pamphlet and is now a semi-annual hardcover. His comics have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Best American Comics, and McSweeneys Quarterly. His illustrations have appeared in numerous publications including the cover of the New Yorker, the Walrus, and Canadian Notes & Queries. He is also Lemony Snicket's partner for the new Young Readers series, All the Wrong Questions, and has illustrated and designed a new, deluxe edition of Stephen Leacock's Sunshine Sketches of a little Town.
Gil Adamson's novel, Ridgerunner has been longlisted for the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize. She is the critically acclaimed author of The Outlander, which won the Dashiell Hammett Prize for Literary Excellence in Crime Writing, the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the ReLit Award, and the Drummer Generalās Award. It was a finalist for the Commonwealth Writersā Prize, CBC Canada Reads, and the Prix Femina in France; longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; and chosen as a Globe and Mail and Washington Post Top 100 Book.
Francesca Ekwuyasi's novel, Butter Honey Pig Bread has been longlisted for the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize. She is a writer, artist, and filmmaker born in Lagos, Nigeria. Her work explores themes of faith, family, queerness, consumption, loneliness, and belonging. Her writing has been published in Winter Tangerine Review, Brittle Paper, Transition Magazine, the Malahat Review, Visual Art News, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and GUTS magazine. Her story āį»run is Heavenā was longlisted for the 2019 Journey Prize. Butter Honey Pig Bread is her first novel. She lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Thomas Kingās novel, Indians on Vacation has been longlisted for the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize. He is an award-winning novelist, short story writer, scriptwriter and photographer. His critically acclaimed, bestselling fiction includes Medicine River; Green Grass, Running Water; One Good Story, That One; Truth and Bright Water; A Short History of Indians in Canada; The Back of the Turtle (winner of the Governor Generalās Literary Award for Fiction); The Inconvenient Indian (winner of the RBC Taylor Prize); the DreadfulWater mystery series, including most recently Obsidian; and the poetry collection 77 Fragments of a Familiar Ruin.
On October 5, at 10 a.m. ET, the Scotiabank Giller Prize shortlist will be announced. This yearās shortlist will be revealed by past winners Esi Edugyan, Elizabeth Hay, Sean Michaels, Michael Redhill and Madeleine Thien.