Past Giller Prize winners

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2017

Michael Redhill's novel Bellevue Square won the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize. (Chris Young/Canadian Press)

• 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

Madeleine Thien's novel Do Not Say We Have Nothing won the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize. (Alfred A. Knopf Canada)

• 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

André Alexis' novel Fifteen Dogs won the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2015. (CBC)

• 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

Sean Michaels won the Giller Prize for his novel Us Conductors. (John Londono/Random House Canada)

• 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

Author Lynn Coady, who has penned novels as well as short story collections, said that the latter can be a difficult, unforgiving genre. (CBC)

• 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

Will Ferguson won the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2012. (Alex Ferguson/Penguin Canada)

• 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

Esi Edugyan won the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize for Half-Blood Blues. (Courtesy of HarperCollins Publishers)

• 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

Johanna Skibsrud won the 2010 prize for The Sentimentalists. (Gaspereau Press)

• 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

Linden MacIntyre won in 2009 for The Bishop’s Man. (Random House Canada)

• 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

Joseph Boyden won the 2008 prize for his book "Through Black Spruce."

• 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

Hay won a Giller Prize in 2007. (McClelland & Stewart)

• 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

In 2006, Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam won the prize. (Doubleday Canada/Margarita Lam Antoniades)

• 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

The Time In Between by David Bergen won in 2005. (McClelland & Stewart)

• 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

Alice Munro won in 2004 for Runaway.

• 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

The In-Between World of Vikram Lall, by M.G. Vassanji, won the Giller Prize in 2003. (Derek Shapton/Anchor Canada)

• 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

The Polished Hoe by Austin Clarke won the prize in 2002. (Dundurn)

• 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

The 2001 Giller went to Clara Callan by late author Richard B. Wright.

• 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

In the first and, so far, only tie of the awards, the 2000 Giller Prize went to Mercy Among the Children by David Adams Richards and Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje.

• 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

Bonnie Burnard won the 1999 Giller Prize for A Good House.

• 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

The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro won the Giller Prize in 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

Mordecai Richler's Barney’s Version won in 1997. (Vintage Canada/Jillian Edelstein)

• 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

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood won the Giller in 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

Rohinton Mistry won the 1995 Giller Prize. (New Canadian Library/F. Mistry)

• 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

The Book of Secrets by M.G. Vassanji won the Giller in 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