National Gallery of Canada  •  380 Sussex Drive
6:00pm

Between the Pages An Evening with the Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalists

with Kim Fu, Rawi Hage, Suzette Mayr and past winner Ian Williams

Hosted by Sabrina Maddeaux

Wednesday
Oct , 2022
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Ian Williams · Photo by Paul Joseph Kim Fu · Photo by L D’Alessandro Rawi Hage · Photo by Madeleine Thien Suzette Mayr · Photo by Tonya Callaghan

The Scotiabank Giller Prize, founded in 1994, highlights the very best in Canadian fiction year after year. The prize awards $100,000 annually to the author of the best Canadian novel or short story collection published in English, and $10,000 to each of the finalists. The award is named in honour of the late literary journalist Doris Giller by her husband, the late Toronto businessman Jack Rabinovitch, who passed away in August 2017.

PLEASE NOTE that Noor Naga and Tsering Yangzom Lama are unable to join us due to scheduling conflicts. We are pleased to announce that past winner Ian Williams will also be participating!

 

Through the Between the Pages presentations in cities across Canada, readers will get a chance to peer inside the minds and creative lives of the writers who’ve made it onto the 2022 shortlist.

 
Here’s what the Jury had to say:"As the world roils and rolls on in this strange new decade, the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize jury can report that Canadian fiction is only becoming more bountiful, energetic, meaningful, funny, and moving. The jury’s discussions and debates throughout the year were nuanced and spirited, but most of all we were continuously in awe of the cornucopia presented to us. We are proud to showcase a longlist of fourteen outstanding titles that are sweeping in scope, touch all corners of life, and which provide pleasure and stimulation as well as urgency and depth. To the nominated authors, it is our delight and honour to say: Congratulations, and thank you.”
 
 
Books are available from our friends at Perfect Books. Please note there will be no on-site book sales at this event.

 

 

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