About the Scotiabank Giller Prize
Which author will take home this year's Scotiabank Giller Prize?
Find out on Nov. 8! You can watch the awards gala live on CBC's bold TV and online at CBC Books starting at 9 p.m. ET. CBC Books will also be running a live chat, featuring authors and special guests, from 6 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.
The event will air again on CBC TV at 11:05 p.m.
The gala will be hosted by CBC's Jian Ghomeshi.
Canada's national pu
blic broadcaster has formed an exclusive media partnership with Giller Prize founder Jack Rabinovitch for the next five years.
Rabinovitch founded the Giller Prize in 1994 in honour of his late wife, literary journalist Doris Giller, who passed away from cancer the year before. The award recognized excellence in Canadian fiction - long format or short stories - and endowed a cash prize annually of $25,000, the largest purse for literature in the country.
In 2005, The Giller Prize teamed up with Scotiabank to create The Scotiabank Giller Prize. It is the first ever co-sponsorship for Canada's richest literary award for fiction. Under the new agreement, the purse doubled, growing to $70,000 with $50,000 going to the winner, and $5,000 being given to each of the four finalists.
You can explore this year's finalists through interviews, articles and multimedia clips here.
Content from all of CBC's rich literary programming can be found online at CBC Books, the one-stop destination for Canadian book lovers.
Find out on Nov. 8! You can watch the awards gala live on CBC's bold TV and online at CBC Books starting at 9 p.m. ET. CBC Books will also be running a live chat, featuring authors and special guests, from 6 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.
The event will air again on CBC TV at 11:05 p.m.
The gala will be hosted by CBC's Jian Ghomeshi.
Canada's national pu
blic broadcaster has formed an exclusive media partnership with Giller Prize founder Jack Rabinovitch for the next five years.Rabinovitch founded the Giller Prize in 1994 in honour of his late wife, literary journalist Doris Giller, who passed away from cancer the year before. The award recognized excellence in Canadian fiction - long format or short stories - and endowed a cash prize annually of $25,000, the largest purse for literature in the country.
In 2005, The Giller Prize teamed up with Scotiabank to create The Scotiabank Giller Prize. It is the first ever co-sponsorship for Canada's richest literary award for fiction. Under the new agreement, the purse doubled, growing to $70,000 with $50,000 going to the winner, and $5,000 being given to each of the four finalists.
You can explore this year's finalists through interviews, articles and multimedia clips here.
Content from all of CBC's rich literary programming can be found online at CBC Books, the one-stop destination for Canadian book lovers.
