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. Millerâs 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 [...]
Since 1994, 237 books have been longlisted and shortlisted for the Prize. In honour of today being the first day of summer, we have put together the complete list of longlisted ans shortlisted books from 1994-2018 to help you plan your summer reading.
We are half-way through the year and the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize jury is hard at work reading through the submissions for this year's Prize. We checked in with them to ask if they could share a bit about the process so far. Here's what they had to say.
In honour of International Womenâs 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.
Since 1994, the Scotiabank Giller Prize has been celebrating Canadian literature. Over the years, some of these nominated novels have been turned into films and enjoyed by international audiences. Here is our round-up of Scotiabank Giller Prize nominated books that have been turned into films.
Aminatta Forna is an award-winning novelist, essayist and memoirist. Her novels include Happiness, The Hired Man and The Memory of Love, which won the Commonwealth Writers Prize, the Aidoo Snyder Prize and Germanyâs Literaturpreis. Her work has been translated into more than 20 languages and her essays on society, politics and culture have appeared in Freemanâs, Granta, The Guardian, The Nation and The New York Review of Books. Forna is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a recipient of a Windham Campbell Award and was made OBE in the Queenâs New Yearâs Honours 2017. She currently lives in Arlington, Virginia.
JosĂ© Teodoro is the author of several plays, including Mote, Cloudless, The Tourist and Slowly, an exchange is taking place. Teodoroâs play Steps was recently published in Playwrights Canada Pressâ anthology Long Story Short. He has worked as story editor on acclaimed films including Hugh Gibsonâs documentary feature The Stairs, winner of the TFCAâs 2016 Rogers Best Canadian Film Award, and Lina RodrĂguezâs Señoritas and This Time Tomorrow. Teodoro is currently developing a book of conversations with Swiss-Canadian filmmaker Peter Mettler entitled Nothing But Time. He lives in Toronto.