The Scotiabank Giller Prize

The Scotiabank Giller Prize

Past Winners

 

2009

Winner

On the Shortlist

Jury Panel

  • Alistair MacLeod
  • Russel Banks
  • Victoria Glendinning



2008

Winner

  • Joseph Boyden for "Through Black Spruce"

On the Shortlist

  • Anthony De Sa for "Barnacle Love"
  • Marina Endicott for "Good to a Fault"
  • Rawi Hage for "Cockroach"
  • Mary Swan for "The Boys in the Trees"

Jury Panel

  • Margaret Atwood
  • Bob Rae
  • Colm Toibin

2007

Winner

  • Elizabeth Hay for "Late Nights on Air"

On the Shortlist

  • Michael Ondaatje for "Divisadero"
  • Daniel Poliquin for "A Secret Between Us"
  • M.G. Vassanji for "The Assassin's Song"
  • Alissa York of Toronto for "Effigy"

Jury Panel

  • David Bergen
  • Camilla Gibb
  • Lorna Goodison

2006

Winner

  • Vincent Lam for "Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures"

On the Shortlist

  • Rawi Hage for "De Niro's Game"
  • Pascale Quiviger for "The Perfect Circle"
  • Gaétan Soucy for "The Immaculate Conception"
  • Carol Windley for "Home Schooling"

Jury Panel

  • Adrienne Clarkson
  • Alice Munro
  • Michael Winter

2005


Winner:

  • David Bergen for "The Time in Between"

Others on Shortlist:

  • Joan Barfoot for "Luck"
  • Camilla Gibb for "Sweetness in the Belly"
  • Lisa Moore for "Alligator"
  • Edeet Ravel for "A Wall of Light"

Jury Panel:

  • Warren Cariou
  • Elizabeth Hay
  • Richard B. Wright

2004


Winner

  • Alice Munro for "Runaway"

On the Shortlist:

  • Shauna Singh Baldwin for "The Tiger Claw"
  • Wayson Choy for "All That Matters"
  • Pauline Holdstock for "Beyond Measure"
  • Paul Quarrington for "Galveston"
  • Miriam Toews for "A Complicated Kindness"

Jury Panel

  • Charlotte Gray
  • Alistair MacLeod
  • M.G. Vassanji

2003


Winner

  • M.G. Vassanji for "The In-Between World of Vikram Lall"

Others on Shortlist

  • Margaret Atwood for "Oryx and Crake"
  • John Bemrose for "The Island Walkers"
  • John Gould for Kilter: "55 Fictions"
  • Ann-Marie MacDonald for "The Way the Crow Flies"

Jury Panel

  • Rosalie Silberman Abella
  • David Staines
  • Rudy Wieb

2002


Winner

  • Austin Clarke for "The Polished Hoe"

Others on Shortlist

  • Bill Gaston for "Mount Appetite"
  • Wayne Johnston for "The Navigator of New York"
  • Lisa Moore for "Open"
  • Carol Shields for "Unless"

Jury Panel

  • Barbara Gowdy
  • Thomas King
  • Bill New

2001


Winner

  • Richard B. Wright for "Clara Callan"

On the Shortlist

  • Sandra Birdsell for "The Russlander"
  • Michael Crummey for "River Thieves"
  • Michael Redhill for "Martin Sloane"
  • Timothy Taylor for "Stanley Park"
  • Jane Urquhart for "The Stone Carvers"

Jury Panel

  • David Adams Richards
  • Joan Clark
  • Robert Fulford

2000


Winner

  • David Adams Richards for "Mercy Among The Children"
  • Michael Ondaatje for "Anil's Ghost"

On the Shortlist

  • Alan Cumyn for "Burridge Unbound"
  • Elizabeth Hay for "A Student of Weather"
  • Eden Robinson for "Monkey Beach"
  • Fred Stenson for "The Trade"

Jury Panel

  • Margaret Atwood
  • Alistair MacLeod
  • Jane Urquhart

1999


Winner

  • Bonnie Burnard for "A Good House"

On the Shortlist

  • Timothy Findley for "Pilgrim"
  • Anne Hébert for "Am I Disturbing You"
  • Nancy Huston for "The Mark of the Angel"
  • David MacFarlane for "Summer Gone"

Jury Panel

  • Alberto Manguel
  • Judith Mappin
  • Nino Ricci

1998


Winner

  • Alice Munro for "The Love of a Good Woman"

On the Shortlist

  • Andre Alexis for "Childhood"
  • Gail Anderson-Dargatz for "A Recipe for Bees"
  • Barbara Gowdy for The "White Bone"
  • Greg Hollingshead for "The Healer"
  • Wayne Johnston for "The Colony of Unrequited Dreams"

Jury Panel

  • Margaret Atwood
  • Guy Vanderhaeghe
  • Peter Gzowski

1997


Winner

  • Mordecai Richler for "Barney's Version"

On the Shortlist

  • Michael Helm for "The Projectionist"
  • Shani Mootoo for "Cereus Blooms at Night"
  • Nino Ricci for "Where She Has Gone"
  • Carol Shields for "Larry's Party"

Jury Panel

  • Bonnie Burnard
  • Mavis Gallant
  • Peter Gzowski

1996


Winner

  • Margaret Atwood for "Alias Grace"

On the Shortlist

  • Gail Anderson-Dargatz for "The Cure for Death by Lightning"
  • Ann-Marie MacDonald for "Fall on Your Knees"
  • Anne Michaels for "Fugitive Pieces"
  • Guy Vanderhaeghe for "The Englishman's Boy"

Jury Panel

  • Bonnie Burnard
  • Carol Shields
  • David Staines

1995


Winner

  • Rohinton Mistry for "A Fine Balance"

On the Shortlist

  • Timothy Findley for "The Piano Man's Daughter"
  • Barbara Gowdy for "Mister Sandman"
  • Leo McKay Jr. for "Like This"
  • Richard B. Wright for "The Age of Longing"

Jury Panel

  • Mordecai Richler
  • David Staines
  • Jane Urquhart

1994


Winner

  • M.G. Vassanji for "The Book of Secrets"

Others on Shortlist

  • Bonnie Burnard for "Casino and Other Stories"
  • Eliza Clark for "What You Need"
  • Shyam Selvadurai for "Funny Boy"
  • M.G. Vassanji for "The Book of Secrets"
  • Steve Weiner for "The Museum of Love"

Jury Panel

  • Alice Munro
  • Mordecai Richler
  • David Staines

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