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Giller Prize

The Scotiabank Giller Prize for Excellence in Canadian Fiction is awarded annually to the author of the best Canadian novel or short story collection published in English. The prize is $40,000.  The Giller prize is named in honour of the late literary journalist Doris Giller and was founded in l994 by her husband, Toronto businessman Jack Rabinovitch.

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2011

Winner: Esi Edugyan for her novel HALF-BLOOD BLUES
The Short List:
David Bezmozgis for his novel THE FREE WORLD
Lynn Coady for her novel THE ANTAGONIST
Patrick deWitt for his novel THE SISTERS BROTHERS
Zsuzsi Gartner for her short story collection BETTER LIVING THROUGH PLASTIC EXPLOSIVES
Michael Ondaatje for his novel THE CAT’S TABLE

Past Giller Winners

2010: The Sentimentalists by Johanna Skibsrud
2009: The Bishop's Man by Lynden MacIntyre
2008: Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden
2007: Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay
2006: Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam. A collection of interlinked stories with medical settings.
FIC LAM
2005: The Time in Between by Winnipeg author David Bergen - FIC BERG
2004: Runaway by south western Ontario author Alice Munro - FIC MUNRO
2003: The In-Between World of Vikram Lall by second time winner M.G. Vassanji, sensuous in detail and political insight
FIC VASSA
2002: The Polished Hoe by Austin Clarke, set in a post colonial Caribbean island - FIC CLARK
2001: Clara Callan by Richard B. Wright - FIC WRIGH
2000: The prize was awarded to two authors each receiving full prize money: Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje - FIC ONDAA and Mercy Among the Children by David Adams Richards - FIC RICHA
1999: A Good House by Bonnie Burnard - FIC BURNA
1998: The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro - FIC MUNRO
1997: Barney's Version by Mordecai Richler (also available on Tape and CD) - FIC RICHL
1996: Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (also available on Tape) - FIC ATTW
1995: A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry - FIC MISTR

Giller Anthologies

Prize Writing : the 10th Anniversary Collection (2003)
The Scotiabank Giller Prize anthology, 15 years : an anthology of prize-winning Canadian fiction (2008)