Video Archives
The Giller Book Club
How to Pronounce Knife
January 14, 2021
Interviewer: Madeleine Thien
Interviewee: Souvankham Thammavongsa
2020 Videos
2020 Broadcast
Watch the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize broadcast on Monday, November 9, at 9 p.m. ET (11:30 AT/12 midnight NT) on CBC and the free CBC Gem streaming service. The livestream will begin at 9 p.m. ET on CBC Books, and a broadcast special will air on CBC Radio One and the free CBC Listen App at 9 p.m. (10 AT/10:30 NT). The evening will be hosted by Eric McCormack with a special performance by Diana Krall.
2020 Between the Pages
Hosted by Jael Richardson, Between the Pages: An Evening with the Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalists took place on November 2, 2020. It was an hour of readings, questions and answers and took viewers inside the minds and creative lives of the writers on the 2020 shortlist.
2020 Shortlist Announcement
The 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize shortlist announcement took place on October 5, 2020, at 10 a.m. ET. The shortlist was announced by previous Prize winners Esi Edugyan, Michael Redhill, Madeleine Thien, Sean Michaels and Elizabeth Hay.
2020 Longlist Announcement
The 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist was announced on by 2019 Prize winner Ian Williams on September 8, 2020, at 10 a.m. ET.
2016 Videos

Mona Awad
13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
Penguin Canada

Gary Barwin
Yiddish for Pirates
Random House Canada

Emma Donoghue
The Wonder
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

Catherine Leroux
The Party Wall
Translated by Lazer Lederhendler
Biblioasis

Madeleine Thien
Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Alfred A. Knopf Canada

Zoe Whittall
The Best Kind of People
House of Anansi Press Inc.
2015 Videos

André Alexis
Fifteen Dogs
Coach House Books

Samuel Archibald
Arvida
Translated by Donald Winkler
Biblioasis

Rachel Cusk
Outline
Harper Perennial, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

Heather O’Neill
Daydreams of Angels
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

Anakana Schofield
Martin John
A John Metcalf Book, an imprint of Biblioasis
2014 Videos

David Bezmozgis
The Betrayers
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

Sean Michaels
Us Conductors
Random House Canada

Heather O’Neill
The Girl Who Was Saturday Night
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

Miriam Toews
All My Puny Sorrows
Alfred A. Knopf Canada

Padma Viswanathan
The Ever After of Ashwin Rao
Random House Canada
2012 Videos

Will Ferguson
419
Viking Canada

Alix Ohlin
Inside
House of Anansi Press

Nancy Richler
The Imposter Bride
HarperCollins
2011 Videos

David Bezmozgis
The Free World
HarperCollins

Lynn Coady
The Antagonist
House of Anansi Press

Patrick deWitt
The Sisters Brothers
House of Anansi Press

Zsuzsi Gartner
Better Living Through Plastic Explosives
Hamish Hamilton Canada

Michael Ondaatje
The Cat’s Table
McClelland & Stewart
2010 Videos

David Bergen
The Matter with Morris
HarperCollins

Alexander MacLeod
Light Lifting
Biblioasis

Johanna Skibsrud
The Sentimentalists
Gaspereau Press

Kathleen Winter
Annabel
House of Anansi Press