Between the Pages: An Evening With the Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalists Giller Prize 2021-11-05 | Between the Pages: An Evening with the Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalists will take place on November 4, 2021, at Koerner Hall. Hosted by Jael Richardson, it will be an hour of readings, questions, and answers, and will take you inside the minds and creative lives of the writers on the 2021 shortlist.
Reading: Held by Anne Michaels Giller Prize 2024-10-07 | Anne Michaels reading from her 2024 Giller Prize longlisted novel HELD.
Reading: Death by a Thousand Cuts by Shashi Bhat Giller Prize 2024-10-07 | Shashi Bhat reading from her 2024 Giller Prize longlisted short story collection DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS.
Reading: This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud Giller Prize 2024-10-07 | Claire Messud reading from her 2024 Giller Prize longlisted novel THIS STRANGE EVENTFUL HISTORY.
Reading: Peacocks of Instagram by Deepa Rajagopalan Giller Prize 2024-10-07 | Deepa Rajagopalan reading from her 2024 Giller Prize longlisted short story collection PEACOCKS OF INSTAGRAM.
Reading: In Winter I Get Up At Night by Jane Urquhart Giller Prize 2024-10-07 | Jane Urquhart reading from her 2024 Giller Prize longlisted novel IN WINTER I GET UP AT NIGHT.
Reading: real ones by katherena vermette Giller Prize 2024-10-07 | katherena vermette reading from her 2024 Giller Prize longlisted novel REAL ONES.
Reading: Bad Land by Corinna Chong Giller Prize 2024-10-07 | Corinna Chong reading from her 2024 Giller Prize longlisted novel BAD LAND.
Reading: A Way to be Happy by Caroline Adderson Giller Prize 2024-10-07 | Caroline Adderson reading from her 2024 Giller Prize longlisted short story collection A WAY TO BE HAPPY.
Reading: The Cure for Drowning by Loghan Paylor Giller Prize 2024-10-07 | Loghan Paylor reading from their 2024 Giller Prize longlisted novel THE CURE FOR DROWNING.
Reading: Curiosities by Anne Fleming Giller Prize 2024-10-07 | Anne Fleming reading from her 2024 Giller Prize longlisted novel CURIOSITIES.
Reading: What I Know About You by Éric Chacour Giller Prize 2024-10-07 | Éric Chacour reading from his 2024 Giller Prize longlisted novel WHAT I KNOW ABOUT YOU (translated by Pablo Struass).
Giller Book Club: Girlfriend on Mars Giller Prize 2024-06-19 | On June 18, 2024, we hosted a conversation with Deborah Willis and Rebecca Makkai for the Giller Book Club. Deborah is the author of GIRLFRIEND ON MARS which was longlisted for the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Rebecca is the author of I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU and was a juror for last year's Prize.Please visit www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/giller-book-club to learn about upcoming book clubs.
Giller Book Club: The Rooftop Garden Giller Prize 2024-05-23 | On May 22, 2024, we hosted a conversation with Menaka Raman-Wilms and Andrew F. Sullivan for the Giller Book Club. Menaka is the author of THE ROOFTOP GARDEN which was longlisted for the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Andrew is the author THE MARIGOLD.Please visit www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/giller-book-club to learn about upcoming book clubs.
Giller Book Club: Wait Softly Brother Giller Prize 2024-05-23 | On May 14, 2024, we hosted a conversation with Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer and Tanis Rideout for the Giller Book Club. Kathryn is the author of WAIT SOFTLY BROTHER which was longlisted for the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Tanis is the author ABOVE ALL THINGS.Please visit www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/giller-book-club to learn about upcoming book clubs.
Giller Book Club: The Clarion Giller Prize 2024-04-17 | On April 16, 2024, we hosted a conversation with Nina Dunic and Gail Anderson-Dargatz for the Giller Book Club. Nina is the author of THE CLARION which was longlisted for the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Gail is the author of over 20 books.Please visit www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/giller-book-club to learn about upcoming book clubs.
Giller Book Club: The Islands Giller Prize 2024-03-06 | On March 5, 2024, we hosted a conversation with Dionne Irving and Donna Bailey Nurse for the Giller Book Club. Dionne is the author of THE ISLANDS which was a finalist for the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Donna is a leading Canadian literary critic.Please visit www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/giller-book-club to learn about upcoming book clubs.
Giller Book Club: Birnam Wood Giller Prize 2024-02-21 | On February 20, 2024, we hosted a conversation with Eleanor Catton and Sharon Gala for the Giller Book Club. Eleanor is the author of BIRNAM WOOD which was a finalist for the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Sharon is the author of The Boat People.Please visit www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/giller-book-club to learn about upcoming book clubs.
Giller Book Club: The Double Life of Benson Yu Giller Prize 2024-02-07 | On February 6, 2024, we hosted a conversation with Kevin Chong and Perry Chafe for the Giller Book Club. Kevin is the author of THE DOUBLE LIFE OF BENSON YU which was a finalist for the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Perry is the author of Closer by Sea.Please visit www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/giller-book-club to learn about upcoming book clubs.
Suzette Mayr | The Sleeping Car Porter | 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize Winner Giller Prize 2023-10-31 | ...
Omar El Akkad | What Strange Paradise | 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize Winner Giller Prize 2023-10-31 | ...
Souvankham Thammavongsa | How to Pronounce Knife | 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize Winner Giller Prize 2023-10-31 | ...
Michael Redhill | Bellevue Square | 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize Winner Giller Prize 2023-10-31 | ...
Madeleine Thien | Do Not Say We Have Nothing | 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize Winner Giller Prize 2023-10-31 | ...
Reading: Away From the Dead by David Bergen Giller Prize 2023-10-10 | Violence is the domain of both the rich and poor. Or so it seems in early 20th-century Ukraine during the tumult of the Russian Revolution.As anarchists, Bolsheviks, and the White Army all come and go, each claiming freedom and justice, David Bergen embeds his readers into the lives of characters connected through love, family, and loyalty. Lehn, a bookseller south of Kiev, deserts the army and writes poetry to his love back home; Sablin, an adopted Mennonite-Ukrainian stableboy, runs with the anarchists only to discover that love and the planting of crops is preferable to killing; Inna, a beautiful young peasant, tries to stop a Mennonite landowner from stealing her child. In a world of violence, Sablin, Lehn, and Inna learn to love and hate and love again, hoping, against all odds, that one can turn away from the dead.Learn more here: gooselane.com/products/away-from-the-dead
Reading: The Islands: Stories by Dionne Irving Giller Prize 2023-10-10 | The Islands follows the lives of Jamaican women—immigrants or the descendants of immigrants—who have relocated all over the world to escape the ghosts of colonialism on what they call the Island. Set in the United States, Jamaica, and Europe, these international stories examine the lives of an uncertain and unsettled cast of characters. In one story, a woman and her husband impulsively leave San Francisco and move to Florida with wild dreams of American reinvention only to unearth the cracks in their marriage. In another, the only Jamaican mother—who is also a touring comedienne—at a prep school feels pressure to volunteer in the school’s International Day. Meanwhile, in a third story, a travel writer finally connects with the mother who once abandoned her.Set in locations and times ranging from 1950s London to 1960s Panama to modern-day New Jersey, Dionne Irving reveals the intricacies of immigration and assimilation in this debut, establishing a new and unforgettable voice in Caribbean-American literature. Restless, displaced, and disconnected, these characters try to ground themselves—to grow where they find themselves planted—in a world in which the tension between what’s said and unsaid can bend the soul.Learn more here: books.catapult.co/books/the-islands
Reading: Wait Softly Brother by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer Giller Prize 2023-10-09 | After twenty years of looping frustrations Kathryn walks out of her marriage and washes up in her childhood home determined to write her way to a new life. There she is put to work by her aging parents sorting generations of memories and mementos as biblical rains fall steadily and the house is slowly cut off from the rest of the world. Lured away from the story she is determined to write – that of her stillborn brother, Wulf – by her mother’s gift of crumbling letters, Kathryn instead begins to piece together the strange tale of an earlier ancestor, Russell Boyt, who fought as a substitute soldier in the American Civil War. As the water rises, and more truths come to the surface, the two stories begin to mingle in unexpected and beautiful ways.Learn more here: bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/wait-softly-brother
Reading: All the Colour in the World by CS Richardson Giller Prize 2023-10-05 | Henry, born 1916, thin-as-sticks, nearsighted, is an obsessive doodler—copying illustrations from his Boy’s Own magazines. Left in the care of a nurturing, Shakespeare-quoting grandmother, eight-year-old Henry receives as a gift his first set of colouring pencils (and a pocket knife for the sharpening). As he commits these colours to memory—cadmium yellow; burnt ochre; deep scarlet red—a passion for art, colour, and the stories of the great artists takes hold, and becomes Henry’s unique way of seeing the world. It is a passion that will both haunt and sustain him on his journey through the century: from boyhood dreams on a summer beach to the hothouse of art academia and a love cut short by tragedy; from the psychological wounds of war to the redemption of unexpected love.Projected against a backdrop of iconic masterpieces—from the rich hues of the European masters to the technicolour magic of Hollywood—All the Colour in the World is Henry’s story: part miscellany, part memory palace, exquisitely precise with the emotional sweep of a great modern romance.Learn more here: penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/706940/all-the-colour-in-the-world-by-cs-richardson/9781039003514
Reading: The Clarion by Nina Dunic Giller Prize 2023-10-04 | Peter plays the trumpet and works in a kitchen; Stasi tries to climb the corporate ladder and lands in therapy. These sensitive siblings struggle to find their place in the world, seeking intimacy and belonging—or trying to escape it.A promising audition, a lost promotion, intriguing strangers and a silent lover—in rich, sensual scenes and moody brilliance, The Clarion explores rituals of connection and belonging, themes of intimacy and performance, and how far we wander to find, or lose, our sense of self.Learn more at invisiblepublishing.com/product/the-clarion
Reading: We Have Never Lived on Earth by Kasia Van Schaik Giller Prize 2023-10-03 | Kasia Van Schaik’s debut story collection follows the journey of Charlotte Ferrier, a child of divorce raised by a single mother in a small town in British Columbia after moving from South Africa. Mother and daughter wait out the end of a bad year in a Mexican hotel; a friendship is tested as forest fires demolish Charlotte’s town; a childhood friend disappears while travelling through Europe; and a girl on the beach examines the memories of dying jellyfish. The stories traverse the most intimate and transforming moments of female experience in a world threatened by ecological crisis.Learn more here: uap.ualberta.ca/titles/1042-9781772126280-we-have-never-lived-on-earth
Reading: The Rooftop Garden by Menaka Raman-Wilms Giller Prize 2023-10-02 | The Rooftop Garden is a novel about Nabila, a researcher who studies seaweed in warming oceans, and her childhood friend Matthew. Now both in their twenties, Matthew has disappeared from his Toronto home, and Nabila travels to Berlin to find him and try to bring him back.The story is interspersed with scenes from their childhood, when Nabila, obsessed with how the climate crisis will cause oceans to rise, created an elaborate imaginary world where much of the land has flooded. She and Matthew would play their game on her rooftop garden, the only oasis in an abandoned city being claimed by water.Their childhood experiences reveal how their lives are on different trajectories, even at an early stage: Nabila comes from an educated, middle-class family, while Matthew had been abandoned by his father and was often left to deal with things on his own.As an adult, Matthew’s dissatisfaction with life leads him to join a group of young men who are angry at society. He eventually finds himself on a violent suicide mission, but Nabila isn’t aware of the extent of his radicalization until they finally meet on a street in Berlin.Learn more at nightwoodeditions.com/collections/menaka-raman-wilms/products/9780889714380
Reading: Girlfriend on Mars by Deborah Willis Giller Prize 2023-10-01 | Amber Kivinen is moving to Mars. Or at least, she will be if she wins a chance to join MarsNow. She and twenty-three reality TV contestants from around the world—including a handsome Israeli, an endearing fellow Canadian, and an assortment of science nerds and wannabe influencers—are competing for two seats on the first human-led mission to Mars, sponsored by billionaire Geoff Task. Meanwhile Kevin, Amber’s boyfriend of fourteen years, was content going nowhere until Amber left him—and their hydroponic weed business—behind. As he tends to the plants growing in their absurdly overpriced Vancouver basement apartment, Kevin tunes in to find out why the love of his life is so determined to leave the planet with somebody else.Learn more at penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/417561/girlfriend-on-mars-by-deborah-willis/9780670069583
Reading: We Meant Well by Erum Shazia Hasan Giller Prize 2023-09-30 | It’s the middle of the night in Los Angeles when Maya, a married mother of one, receives the phone call. Her colleague Marc has been accused of assaulting a local girl in Likanni, where they operate a charitable orphanage. Can she get on the next flight?When Maya arrives, protesters surround the compound. The accuser is Lele, her former protégé and the chief’s daughter. There are no witnesses, no proof of any crime.What happened that night? And what will happen to the orphanage if this becomes a scandal? Caught between Marc and Lele, the charity and the villagers, her marriage and new temptations, and between worlds, Maya lives the secret contradictions of the aid worker: there to serve the most deprived, but ultimately there to govern.As Maya feels the pleasures, freedoms, and humanity of life in Likanni, she recognizes that her American life is inextricably woven into this violent reality — and that dishonesty in one place affects the realities in another.Learn more at ecwpress.com/products/we-meant-well
Reading: The Double Life of Benson Yu by Kevin Chong Giller Prize 2023-09-29 | In a Chinatown housing project lives twelve-year-old Benny, his ailing grandmother, and his strange neighbor Constantine, a man who believes he’s a reincarnated medieval samurai. When his grandmother is hospitalized, Benny manages to survive on his own until a social worker comes snooping. With no other family, he is reluctantly taken in by Constantine and soon, an unlikely bond forms between the two.At least, that’s what Yu, the narrator of the story, wants to write.The creator of a bestselling comic book, Yu is struggling with continuing the poignant tale of Benny and can’t help but interject from the present day, slowly revealing a darker backstory. Can Yu confront the demons he’s spent his adult life avoiding or risk his own life...and Benny’s?Learn more at simonandschuster.ca/books/The-Double-Life-of-Benson-Yu/Kevin-Chong/9781668005491
2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize Longlist Announcement Giller Prize 2023-09-07 | Find out who makes the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist on Wednesday, September 6 at 9:30 a.m. ET.
2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize Longlist Announcement Giller Prize 2023-09-06 | Twelve outstanding Canadian authors have been named to the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist. Kicking off the 30th anniversary of the Scotiabank Giller Prize, last year’s winner Suzette Mayr, announced the longlist today in St. John’s to a crowd of book lovers, authors, and publishers.The 12 titles were chosen from 145 books submitted by publishers across Canada, an all-time record number of submissions.Get to know the longlist: scotiabankgillerprize.ca/2023-finalists
Johanna Skibsrud | The Sentimentalists | 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize Winner Giller Prize 2023-09-01 | ...
Linden MacIntyre | The Bishops Man | 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize Winner Giller Prize 2023-09-01 | ...
Joseph Boyden | Through Black Spruce | 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize Winner Giller Prize 2023-09-01 | ...
Elizabeth Hay | Late Nights on Air | 2007 Scotiabank Giller Prize Winner Giller Prize 2023-08-31 | ...
Vincent Lam | Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures | 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize Winner Giller Prize 2023-08-27 | ...
M.G. Vassanji | The In Between World of Vikram Lall | 2003 Giller Prize Winner Giller Prize 2023-08-27 | ...
