Ceremony date 7 November 2016 Country Canada First awarded 1994 | Presented by Jack Rabinovitch Established 1994 People also search for Booker Prize | |
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Awarded for English-language Canadian fiction including translations Winners & Nominees Do Not Say We Have NothingMadeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing, Winner, The WonderEmma Donoghue, The Wonder, Nominee, The Best Kind of PeopleZoe Whittall, The Best Kind of People, Nominee, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat GirlMona Awad, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, Nominee, The Party WallCatherine Leroux, The Party Wall, Nominee, Yiddish for PiratesGary Barwin, Yiddish for Pirates, Nominee, Fifteen DogsAndré Alexis, Fifteen Dogs, Winner, Daydreams of AngelsHeather O'Neill, Daydreams of Angels, Nominee, Martin JohnAnakana Schofield, Martin John, Nominee, Outline: A NovelRachel Cusk, Outline: A Novel, Nominee, Us ConductorsSean Michaels, Us Conductors, Winner, The BetrayersDavid Bez, The Betrayers, Nominee, All My Puny SorrowsMiriam Toews, All My Puny Sorrows, Nominee, The Girl Who Was Saturday NightHeather O'Neill, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night, Nominee, The Ever After of Ashwin RaoPadma Viswanathan, The Ever After of Ashwin Rao, Nominee, HellgoingLynn Coady, Hellgoing, Winner, CaughtLisa Moore, Caught, Nominee, Cataract CityCraig Davidson, Cataract City, Nominee, The Crooked MaidDan Vyleta, The Crooked Maid, Nominee, Going Home AgainDennis Bock, Going Home Again, Nominee, 419Will Ferguson, 419, Winner, RuKim Thúy, Ru, Nominee, InsideAlix Ohlin, Inside, Nominee, Whirl AwayRussell Wangersky, Whirl Away, Nominee, The Imposter Bride: A NovelNancy Richler, The Imposter Bride: A Novel, Nominee | ||
The scotiabank giller prize on cbc tv cbc
The Scotiabank Giller Prize, or Giller Prize, is a literary award given to a Canadian author of a novel or short story collection published in English (including translation) the previous year, after an annual juried competition between publishers who submit entries. The 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, and is awarded in November of each year along with a cash reward (then CAN$25,000).
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- The scotiabank giller prize on cbc tv cbc
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On September 22, 2005, the Giller Prize established an endorsement deal with Scotiabank, a major Canadian bank. The total prize package for the award was increased to $50,000, with $40,000 presented to the winning author and $2,500 each for 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, comprising no fewer than 10 and no more than 15 titles. In 2008, the prize fund was increased to $50,000 for the winning author and $5,000 for each of the authors on the shortlist. In 2014, the prize package was expanded further, to $100,000 for the winning author and $10,000 for each of the shortlisted authors. In 2015, the jury was expanded from three to five people.
In 2011, the Giller Prize extended its recognition and support of Canadian literary talent to highlight all Canadian fiction eligible for the prize in a given publishing year. The Crazy for CanLit feature showcases and encourages readers to celebrate all of the published books in different ways (in 2014 and 2015, with themed reading lists), often in conjunction with prizes and incentives.
Over the years, the Scotiabank Giller Prize has been awarded to emerging and established authors from both small independent and large publishing houses in Canada.
Scotiabank giller prize finalists q a cbc
Cultural debate
Following Vincent Lam's win of the Giller Prize in 2006, Geist columnist Stephen Henighan criticized the Giller Prize for its apparent dependency for its shortlists and winners on books published by Bertelsmann AG-affiliated Canadian publishing houses, all of which are based in Toronto.
Arguing that the trend towards centralization of Canadian publishing in Toronto has led to a monopolistic control of the Giller Prize by Bertelsmann and its authors, Henighan wrote, "Year after year the vast majority of the books shortlisted for the Giller came from the triumvirate of publishers owned by the Bertelsmann Group: Knopf Canada, Doubleday Canada and Random House Canada. Like the three musketeers, this trio is in fact a quartet: Bertelsmann also owns 25 percent of McClelland & Stewart, and now manages M&S’s marketing." Henighan added that all of the Giller Prize winners from 1994 to 2004, with the exception of Mordecai Richler, lived within a two-hour drive of downtown Toronto.
The article raised debate within the media and in the wider public over the credibility of the Giller Prize. Henighan revisited that article in 2015.
In 2010, there was much talk about how small presses dominated that year’s shortlist. Montrealer Johanna Skibsrud won the Giller Prize that year for her novel The Sentimentalists, published by independent Gaspereau Press. The company produces books using a 1960s offset printing press and hand-bindery equipment. As a result, while there was great demand for the book in the marketplace, the publisher had trouble keeping up with production. In the end, they turned to Douglas & McIntyre, a large West-coast publisher, to print copies of the book.
The Gaspereau situation prompted an examination within the cultural community about what makes a book and the nature of publishing and marketing books. The book also became the top-selling title for Kobo eReaders, outselling even George W. Bush's memoir Decision Points.
2006
In 2006, the Giller Prize publicized its preliminary longlist for the first time.
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In 2011, the Giller Prize committee incorporated a Readers' Choice process into its longlist for the first time, allowing members of the general public to nominate and make the case for books of their own choosing, from which the winning book would be included in the long list. The Readers' Choice selection was Myrna Dey's novel Extensions.
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Longlist to be announced September 18, 2017