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Scotiabank Giller Prize Spotlight: David Bezmozgis

Scotiabank Giller Prize Spotlight: David Bezmozgis

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 [...]

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Scotiabank Giller Prize Spotlight: André Alexis

Scotiabank Giller Prize Spotlight: André Alexis

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 [...]

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Scotiabank Giller Prize Spotlight: K.D. Miller

Scotiabank Giller Prize Spotlight: K.D. Miller

Scotiabank Giller Prize Spotlight: K.D. Miller September 7, 2019 K.D. Miller’s short stories have been nominated for the Journey Prize, published widely in Canadian magazines and broadcast by CBC. She has published [...]

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Scotiabank Giller Prize Spotlight: Zalika Reid-Benta

Scotiabank Giller Prize Spotlight: Zalika Reid-Benta

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 [...]

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The Scotiabank Giller Prize Presents its 2019 Longlist

The Scotiabank Giller Prize Presents its 2019 Longlist

The Scotiabank Giller Prize Presents its 2019 Longlist September 3, 2019 September 3, 2019 (St. John’s, NL) – The Scotiabank Giller Prize’s annual celebration of Canadian literary talent began today [...]

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The Complete List of Scotiabank Giller Prize Longlisted & Shortlisted Books from 1994-2018

The Complete List of Scotiabank Giller Prize Longlisted & Shortlisted Books from 1994-2018

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.

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Notes from the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize Jury

Notes from the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize Jury

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.

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Celebrating Women Authors Who Have Won the Scotiabank Giller Prize

Celebrating Women Authors Who Have Won the Scotiabank Giller Prize

In honour of International Women’s 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.

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From Page to Screen: Scotiabank Giller Prize Books Transformed into Films

From Page to Screen: Scotiabank Giller Prize Books Transformed into Films

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.

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Meet the Jury: Aminatta Forna

Meet the Jury: Aminatta Forna

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 Germany’s Literaturpreis. Her work has been translated into more than 20 languages and her essays on society, politics and culture have appeared in Freeman’s, 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 Queen’s New Year’s Honours 2017. She currently lives in Arlington, Virginia.

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