Scotiabank Giller Prize
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The Scotiabank Giller Prize is an award that goes to the author of a Canadian novel or short story fiction collection published in English (including translation) deemed by a jury to be the best published in the previous year.
This prize was established as the Giller Prize in 1994 by Toronto businessman Jack Rabinovitch in honour of his late wife Doris Giller, a former literary editor at the Toronto Star. The prize is given in November of each year and comes with a cash reward of $25,000.
On September 22, 2005, the Giller Prize established an endorsement deal with Scotiabank, a major Canadian bank. The prize package for the award was increased to $50,000, of which $40,000 will be presented to the winning author and $2,500 each to the other four shortlisted nominees. The award's official name was also changed at that time to the Scotiabank Giller Prize.
In 2006, the prize instituted a longlist for the first time, comprised of no fewer than 10 and no more than 15 titles.
Controversy has surrounded the Giller Prize for many years, as members of the Canadian media and publishing industry have openly questioned jury selection due to an apparent, and statistical, bias towards jury members and prize winners who are published by companies with outright or partial ownership by Bertelsmann Media Worldwide. Giller organizers refuse to divulge their methods for choosing juries, while juries have remained equally silent about their reasons for choosing winners.
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[edit] Nominees and winners
The winners are in bold.
[edit] 1994
- M.G. Vassanji — The Book of Secrets
- Bonnie Burnard — Casino and Other Stories
- Eliza Clark — What You Need
- Shyam Selvadurai — Funny Boy
- Steve Weiner — The Museum of Love
Jury: Alice Munro, Mordecai Richler, David Staines
[edit] 1995
- Rohinton Mistry — A Fine Balance
- Timothy Findley — The Piano Man's Daughter
- Barbara Gowdy — Mister Sandman
- Leo McKay, Jr. — Like This
- Richard B. Wright — The Age of Longing
Jury: Mordecai Richler, David Staines, Jane Urquhart
[edit] 1996
- Margaret Atwood — Alias Grace
- Gail Anderson-Dargatz — The Cure for Death by Lightning
- Ann-Marie MacDonald — Fall on Your Knees
- Anne Michaels — Fugitive Pieces
- Guy Vanderhaeghe — The Englishman's Boy
Jury: Bonnie Burnard, Carol Shields, David Staines
[edit] 1997
- Mordecai Richler — Barney's Version
- Michael Helm — The Projectionist
- Shani Mootoo — Cereus Blooms at Night
- Nino Ricci — Where She Has Gone
- Carol Shields — Larry's Party
Jury: Bonnie Burnard, Mavis Gallant, Peter Gzowski
[edit] 1998
- Alice Munro — The Love of a Good Woman
- André Alexis — Childhood
- Gail Anderson-Dargatz — A Recipe for Bees
- Barbara Gowdy — The White Bone
- Greg Hollingshead — The Healer
- Wayne Johnston — The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
Jury: Margaret Atwood, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Peter Gzowski
[edit] 1999
- Bonnie Burnard — A Good House
- Timothy Findley — Pilgrim
- Anne Hébert — Am I Disturbing You?
- Nancy Huston — The Mark of the Angel
- David Macfarlane — Summer Gone
Jury: Alberto Manguel, Judith Mappin, Nino Ricci
[edit] 2000
In 2000, the award was presented to two writers. This is the only time the Giller has ever resulted in a tie, and Rabinovitch has advised subsequent Giller juries that they must choose a single winner.
- Michael Ondaatje — Anil's Ghost
- David Adams Richards — Mercy Among the Children
- Alan Cumyn — Burridge Unbound
- Elizabeth Hay — A Student of Weather
- Eden Robinson — Monkey Beach
- Fred Stenson — The Trade
Jury: Margaret Atwood, Alistair MacLeod, Jane Urquhart
[edit] 2001
- Richard B. Wright — Clara Callan
- Sandra Birdsell — The Russlander
- Michael Crummey — River Thieves
- Michael Redhill — Martin Sloane
- Timothy Taylor — Stanley Park
- Jane Urquhart — The Stone Carvers
Jury: David Adams Richards, Joan Clark, Robert Fulford
[edit] 2002
- Austin Clarke — The Polished Hoe
- Bill Gaston — Mount Appetite
- Wayne Johnston — The Navigator of New York
- Lisa Moore — Open
- Carol Shields — Unless
Jury: Barbara Gowdy, Thomas King, Bill New
[edit] 2003
M. G. Vassanji, who won the first-ever Giller Prize in 1994, became the award's first repeat winner in 2003.
- M.G. Vassanji — The In-Between World of Vikram Lall
- Margaret Atwood — Oryx and Crake
- John Bemrose — The Island Walkers
- John Gould — Kilter: 55 Fictions
- Ann-Marie MacDonald — The Way the Crow Flies
Jury: Rosalie Abella, David Staines, Rudy Wiebe
[edit] 2004
- Alice Munro — Runaway
- Shauna Singh Baldwin — The Tiger Claw
- Wayson Choy — All That Matters
- Pauline Holdstock — Beyond Measure
- Paul Quarrington — Galveston
- Miriam Toews — A Complicated Kindness
Jury: M.G. Vassanji, Alistair MacLeod, Charlotte Gray.
[edit] 2005
- David Bergen — The Time in Between
- Joan Barfoot — Luck
- Camilla Gibb — Sweetness in the Belly
- Lisa Moore — Alligator
- Edeet Ravel — A Wall of Light
Jury: Warren Cariou, Elizabeth Hay, Richard B. Wright.
[edit] 2006
- Vincent Lam — Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures
- Rawi Hage — De Niro's Game
- Pascale Quiviger — The Perfect Circle (translation by Sheila Fischman)
- Gaétan Soucy — The Immaculate Conception (translation by Lazer Lederhendler)
- Carol Windley — Home Schooling
Jury: Adrienne Clarkson, Alice Munro, Michael Winter.
[edit] Longlist nominees
In 2006, the Giller Prize publicized its preliminary longlist for the first time.
- David Adams Richards — The Friends of Meager Fortune
- Caroline Adderson — Pleased to Meet You
- Todd Babiak — The Garneau Block
- Randy Boyagoda — Governor of the Northern Province
- Douglas Coupland — jPod
- Alan Cumyn — The Famished Lover
- Rawi Hage — De Niro's Game
- Kenneth J. Harvey — Inside
- Wayne Johnston — The Custodian of Paradise
- Vincent Lam — Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures
- Annette Lapointe — Stolen
- Pascale Quiviger — The Perfect Circle
- Gaétan Soucy — The Immaculate Conception
- Russell Wangersky — The Hour of Bad Decisions
- Carol Windley — Home Schooling
