Past Giller Prize winners
A comprehensive list of all the past Giller Prize winners.
1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019
2019

- Winner: Reproduction by Ian Williams
- Immigrant City by David Bezmozgis
- Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club by Megan Gail Coles
- The Innocents by Michael Crummey
- Dual Citizens by Alix Ohlin
- Lampedusa by Steven Price
2018

- Winner: Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
- French Exit by Patrick deWitt
- Songs of the Cold of Heart by Eric Dupont
- Motherhood by Sheila Heti
- An Ocean of Minutes by Thea Lim
2017

- Winner: Bellevue Square by Michael Redhill
- Transit by Rachel Cusk
- Minds of Winter by Ed O'Loughlin
- Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson
- I Am a Truck by Michelle Winters
2016

- Winner: Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
- 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona Awad
- Yiddish for Pirates by Gary Barwin
- The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
- The Party Wall by Catherine Leroux, translated by Lazer Lederhendler
- The Best Kind of People by Zoe Whittall
2015

- Winner: Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis
- Arvida by Samuel Archibald, translated by Donald Winkler
- Outline by Rachel Cusk
- Daydreams of Angels by Heather O'Neill
- Martin John by Anakana Schofield
2014

- Winner: Us Conductors by Sean Michaels
- The Betrayers by David Bezmozgis
- Tell by Frances Itani
- The Girl Who Was Saturday Night by Heather O'Neill
- All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
- The Ever After of Ashwin Rao by Padma Viswanathan
2013

- Winner: Hellgoing by Lynn Coady
- Going Home Again by Dennis Bock
- Cataract City by Craig Davidson
- Caught by Lisa Moore
- The Crooked Maid by Dan Vyleta
2012

- Winner: 419 by Will Ferguson
- Inside by Alix Ohlin
- The Imposter Bride by Nancy Richler
- Ru by Kim Thúy, translated by Sheila Fischman
- Whirl Away by Russell Wangersky
2011

- Winner: Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
- The Free World by David Bezmozgis
- The Antagonist by Lynn Coady
- The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
- Better Living Through Plastic Explosives by Zsuzsi Gartner
- The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
2010

- Winner: The Sentimentalists by Johanna Skibsrud
- The Matter with Morris by David Bergen
- Light Lifting by Alexander MacLeod
- This Cake Is for the Party by Sarah Selecky
- Annabel by Kathleen Winter
2009

- Winner: The Bishop's Man by Linden MacIntyre
- The Disappeared by Kim Echlin
- The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon
- Fall by Colin McAdam
- The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels
2008

- Winner: Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden
- Barnacle Love by Anthony De Sa
- Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott
- Cockroach by Rawi Hage
- The Boys in the Trees by Mary Swan
2007

- Winner: Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay
- Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
- A Secret Between Us by Daniel Poliquin, translated by Donald Winkler
- The Assassin's Song by M.G. Vassanji
- Effigy by Alissa York
2006

- Winner: Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam
- De Niro's Game by Rawi Hage
- The Perfect Circle by Pascale Quiviger, translated by Sheila Fischman
- The Immaculate Conception by Gaétan Soucy, translated by Lazer Lederhendler
- Home Schooling by Carol Windley
2005

- Winner: The Time in Between by David Bergen
- Luck by Joan Barfoot
- Sweetness In The Belly by Camilla Gibb
- Alligator by Lisa Moore
- A Wall of Light by Edeet Ravel
2004

- Winner: Runaway by Alice Munro
- The Tiger Claw by Shauna Singh Baldwin
- All That Matters by Wayson Choy
- Beyond Measure by Pauline Holdstock
- Galveston by Paul Quarrington
- A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
2003

- Winner: The In-Between World of Vikram Lall by M.G. Vassanji
- Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
- The Island Walkers by John Bemrose
- Kilter: 55 Fictions by John Gould
- The Way the Crow Flies by Ann-Marie MacDonald
2002

- Winner: The Polished Hoe by Austin Clarke
- Mount Appetite by Bill Gaston
- The Navigator of New York by Wayne Johnston
- Open by Lisa Moore
- Unless by Carol Shields
2001

- Winner: Clara Callan by Richard B. Wright
- The Russlander by Sandra Birdsell
- River Thieves by Michael Crummey
- Martin Sloane by Michael Redhill
- Stanley Park by Timothy Taylor
- The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart
2000

- Winner — tie: Mercy Among the Children by David Adams Richards
- Winner — tie: Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
- Burridge Unbound by Alan Cumyn
- A Student of Weather by Elizabeth Hay
- Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson
- The Trade by Fred Stenson
1999

- Winner: A Good House by Bonnie Burnard
- Pilgrim by Timothy Findley
- Am I Disturbing You? by Anne Hébert, translated by Sheila Fischman
- The Mark of the Angel by Nancy Huston
- Summer Gone by David Macfarlane
1998

- Winner: The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro
- Childhood by André Alexis
- A Recipe for Bees by Gail Anderson-Dargatz
- The White Bone by Barbara Gowdy
- The Healer by Greg Hollingshead
- The Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Wayne Johnston
1997

- Winner: Barney's Version by Mordecai Richler
- The Projectionist by Michael Helm
- Cereus Blooms at Night by Shani Mootoo
- Where She Has Gone by Nino Ricci
- Larry's Party by Carol Shields
1996

- Winner: Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
- The Cure for Death by Lightning by Gail Anderson-Dargatz
- Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
- Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
- The Englishman's Boy by Guy Vanderhaeghe
1995

- Winner: A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
- The Piano Man's Daughter by Timothy Findley
- Mister Sandman by Barbara Gowdy
- Like This by Leo McKay, Jr.
- The Age of Longing by Richard B. Wright
1994

- Winner: The Book of Secrets, by M.G. Vassanji
- Casino and Other Stories by Bonnie Burnard
- What You Need by Eliza Clark
- Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai
- The Museum of Love by Steve Weiner
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