The Giller Prize’s homepage is here.
2024 Juried by Kevin Chong, Noah Richler (jury chair), and Molly Johnson. Here.
Shortlisted:
Éric Chacour’s What I Know About You (Trans. Pablo Strauss)
Anne Fleming’s Curiosities
✔Conor Kerr’s Prairie Edge
Anne Michaels‘ Held
Deepa Rajagopalan’s Peacocks of Instagram
Longlisted:
Caroline Adderson’s A Way to Be Happy
✔Shashi Bhat’s Death by a Thousand Cuts
Corinna Chong’s Bad Land
Claire Messud’s This Strange Eventful History
Loghan Paylor’s [they/them] The Cure for Drowning
Jane Urquhart’s In Winter I Get Up at Night
katherena vermette’s real ones
2023 Juried by Ian Williams, Sharon Bala, Brian Thomas Isaac, Rebecca Makkai and Neel Mukherjee. Here.
Winner: Sarah Bernstein’s Study for Obedience
Shortlisted:
✔Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood
Kevin Chong’s The Double Life of Benson Yu
✔Dionne Irving’s The Islands
CS Richardson’s All the Colour in the World
Longlisted:
✔David Bergen’s Away from the Dead
Nina Dunic’s The Clarion
Erum Shazia Hasan’s We Meant Well
Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer’s Wait Softly Brother
Menaka Raman-Wilms’ The Rooftop Garden
Kasia Van Schaik’s We Have Never Lived on Earth
✔Deborah Willis’ Girlfriend on Mars
2022 Juried by Kaie Kellough, Katie Kitamura, Casey Plett, Waubgeshig Rice, and Scott Spencer. Here.
Winner: ✔Suzette Mayr’s The Sleeping Car Porter
Shortlisted:
✔Kim Fu’s Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
✔Rawi Hage’s Stray Dogs
✔Tsering Yangzom Lama’s We Measure the Earth with our Bodies
✔Noor Naga’s If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
Longlisted:
Billy-Ray Belcourt’s A Minor Chorus
André Forget’s In the City of Pigs
✔Sheila Heti’s Pure Colour
✔Suzette Mayr’s The Sleeping Car PorterBrian Thomas Isaac’s All the Quiet Places
✔Conor Kerr’s Avenue of Champions
André Narbonne’s Lucien & Olivia
✔Dmitri Nasrallah’s Hotline
Fawn Parker’s What We Both Know
Antoine Wilson’s Mouth to Mouth
2021 Juried by Zalika Reid Benta, Megan Gail Coles, Joshua Whitehead, Tash Aw, and Joshua Ferris. Here.
Winner: ✔Omar El Akkad’s What Strange Paradise
Shortlisted:
✔Angélique Lalonde’s Glorious Frazzled Beings
✔Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onubia’s The Son of The House
✔Jordan Tannahill’s The Listeners
✔Miriam Toews Fight Night
Longlisted:
✔Cedar Bowers’ Astra
✔Casey Plett’s A Dream of a Woman
✔Rachel Rose’s The Octopus Has Three Hearts
✔Linda Rui Feng’s Swimming Back to Trout River
✔Kim Thúy’s Em, Translated by Sheila Fischman
✔Katherena Vermette’s The Strangers
✔Aimee Wall’s We, Jane
2020 Juried by Claire Armistead, David Chariandy, Tom Rachman, Eden Robinson, and Mark Sakamoto. Here.
Winner: ✔Souvankham Thammavongsa’s How to Pronounce Knife
Shortlisted:
✔Gil Adamson’s Ridgerunner
✔David Bergen’s Here the Dark
✔Emily St. John Mandel’s The Glass Hotel
✔Shani Mootoo’s Polar Vortex
Longlisted:
✔Lynn Coady’s Watching You Without Me
✔Eva Crocker’s All I Ask
✔Emma Donoghue’s The Pull of the Stars
✔Francesca Ekwuyasi’s Butter Honey Pig Bread
✔Michelle Good’s Five Little Indians
✔Kaie Kellough’s Dominoes at the Crossroads
✔Thomas King’s Indians on Vacation
✔Annabel Lyon’s Consent
✔Seth’s Clyde Fans
2019 Juried by Randy Boyagoda, Aminatta Forna, Aleksandar (Sasha) Hemon, Donna Bailey Nurse and José Teodoro. Here.
Winner: ✔Ian Williams’ Reproduction
Shortlisted:
✔David Bezmozgis’ Immigrant City
✔Megan Gail Coles’ Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club
✔Michael Crummey’s The Innocents
✔Alix Ohlin’s Dual Citizens
✔Stephen Price’s Lampedusa
Longlisted:
✔André Alexis’ Days by Moonlight
✔Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments
✔Michael Christie’s Greenwood
✔Adam Foulds’ Dream Sequence
✔K.D. Miller’s Late Breaking
✔Zalika Reid-Benta’s Frying Plantain
2018 Juried by Kamal Al-Solaylee, Maxine Bailey, John Freeman, Philip Hensher and Heather O’Neill
My Autumn 2018 Awards and Events page is here.
Winner: ✔Esi Edugyan’s Washington Black
Shortlisted:
✔Patrick deWitt’s French Exit
✔Eric Dupont’s Songs for the Cold of Heart (Trans. Peter McCambridge)
✔Sheila Heti’s Motherhood
✔Thea Lim’s An Ocean of Minutes
✔Paige Cooper’s Zolitude
✔Rawi Hage’s Beirut Hellfire Society
✔Emma Hooper’s Our Homesick Songs
✔Lisa Moore’s Something for Everyone
✔Tanya Tagaq’s Split Tooth
✔Kim Thúy’s Vi (Trans. Sheila Fischman)
✔Joshua Whitehead’s Jonny Appleseed
2017 Juried by André Alexis, Anita Rau Badami, Richard Beard, Lynn Coady and Nathan Englander
My Autumn 2017 Awards and Events page is here.
Winner: ✔Michael Redhill’s Bellevue Square(Doubleday)
Shortlisted:
✔Rachel Cusk’s Transit (HarperCollins)
✔Ed O’Loughlin’s Minds of Winter (Anansi)
✔Eden Robinson’s Son of a Trickster (Knopf)
✔Michelle Winters’ I Am a Truck (Invisible)
Longlisted:
✔David Chariandry’s Brother (M&S)
✔David Denchuk’s The Bone Mother (ChiZine)
✔Joel Thomas Hynes We’ll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night (HarperCollins)
✔Andrée A. Michaud’s Boundary: The Last Summer (Trans. Donald Winkler) (Biblioasis)
✔Josip Novakovich’s Tumbleweed (Véhicule)
✔Zoey Leigh Peterson’s Next Year for Sure (Doubleday)
✔Deborah Willis’ The Dark and Other Love Stories (Hamish Hamilton)
2016 Juried by Samantha Harvey, Jeet Heer, Lawrence Hill, Alan Warner and Kathleen Winter.
Winner: ✔Madeleine Thien’s Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Shortlisted:
✔Mona Awad’s 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
✔Gary Barwin’s Yiddish for Pirates
✔Emma Donoghue’s The Wonder
Kerry Lee Powell’s Willem de Kooning’s Paintbrush
✔Zoe Whittall’s The Best Kind of People
Longlisted:
Andrew Battershill’s Pillow
✔David Bergen’s Stranger
✔Catherine LeRoux’s The Party Wall (Trans. Lazer Lederhendler)
Kathy Page’s The Two of Us
✔Susan Perly’s Death Valley
✔Steven Price’s By Gaslight
2015 Juried by John Boyne, Cecil Foster, Alexander MacLeod, Alison Pick and Helen Oyeyemi.
✔Winner: André Alexis’ Fifteen Dogs
Shortlisted:
Samuel Archibald’s Arvida (Trans. Donald Winkler)
✔Rachel Cusk’s Outline
Heather O’Neill’s Daydreams of Angels
✔Anakana Schofield’s Martin John
Longlisted:
Michael Christie’s If I Fall, If I Die
Patrick deWitt’s Undermajordomo Minor
✔Marina Endicott’s Close to Hugh
Connie Gault’s A Beauty
Alix Hawley’s All True Not a Lie in It
✔Clifford Jackman’s The Winter Family
Russell Smith’s Confidence
2014 Juried by Shauna Singh Baldwin, Justin Carpenter and Francine Prose.
Winner: ✔ Sean Michaels’ Us Conductors (RHC)
Shortlisted:
David Bezmozgis’s The Betrayers (HC)
Frances Itani’s Tell (HC)
✔Heather O’Neill’s The Girl Who Was Saturday Night (HC)
✔Miriam Toews’ All My Puny Sorrows (RHC)
✔Padma Viswanathan’s The Ever After of Ashwin Rao (RHC)
ECW Press, 2013
Longlisted:
✔Arjun Basu’s Waiting for the Man (ECW)
✔Rivka Galchen’s American Innovations (HC)
✔Jennifer Lovegrove’s Watch How We Walk (ECW)
✔Shani Mootoo’s Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab (RHC)
✔Kathy Page’s Paradise and Elsewhere (Biblioasis)
✔Claire Holden Rothman’s My October (PBC)
2013 Juried by Margaret Atwood, Esi Edugyan and Jonathan Lethem.
Winner: ✔Hellgoing, Lynn Coady (House of Anansi Press)
Shortlisted:
✔Going Home Again, Dennis Bock (HarperCollins Canada)
✔Cataract City, Craig Davidson (Doubleday Canada – Random House)
✔Caught, Lisa Moore (House of Anansi Press)
✔The Crooked Maid, Dan Vyleta (HarperCollins Canada)
Longlisted:
✔The Orenda, Joseph Boyden (Hamish Hamilton Canada – Penguin)
✔How To Get Along With Women, Elisabeth De Mariaffi (Invisible Publishing)
✔Extraordinary, David Gilmour (Patrick Crean Editions – HarperCollins)
✔Emancipation Day, Wayne Grady (Doubleday Canada – Random House)
October 1970, Louis Hamelin, Trans. by Wayne Grady (House of Anansi Press)
✔The Son of a Certain Woman, Wayne Johnston (Knopf Canada – Random House)
✔The Woman Upstairs, Claire Messud (Knopf Canada – Random House)
✔Minister Without Portfolio, Michael Winter (Hamish Hamilton Canada – Penguin)
2012 Juried by Roddy Doyle, Gary Shteyngart and Anna Porter.
(Titles link to my responses to these books, and publishers’ names link to their page for the book.)
Winner: ✔419, Will Ferguson (Viking Canada)
Shortlisted:
✔Inside, Alix Ohlin (House of Anansi)
✔The Imposter Bride, Nancy Richler (HarperCollins Canada)
✔Ru, Kim Thúy (Trans. Sheila Fischman) (Random House Canada)
✔Whirl Away, Russell Wangersky (Thomas Allen Publishers)
Longlisted:
✔Our Daily Bread, Lauren Davis (HarperCollins Canada)
✔My Life among the Apes, Cary Fagan (Cormorant Books)
✔Dr. Brinkley’s Tower, Robert Hough (House of Anansi)
✔One Good Hustle, Billie Livingston (Random House Canada)
✔The Sweet Girl, Annabel Lyon (Random House Canada)
✔Everybody Has Everything, Katrina Onstad (Emblem Editions)
✔The Emperor of Paris, C.S. Richardson (Doubleday Canada)
Y, Marjorie Celona (Hamish Hamilton Canada)
2011
Juried by Howard Norman, Annabel Lyon and Andrew O’Hagan.
(Titles link to my responses to these books,and publishers’ names link to their page.
Winner: ✔Half-Blood Blues, Esi Edugyan (Thomas Allen)
Shortlisted:
✔The Free World, David Bezmozgis (HarperCollins)
✔The Antagonist, Lynn Coady (House of Anansi)
✔The Sisters Brothers, Patrick DeWitt (House of Anansi)
✔Better Living though Plastic Explosives, Zsuzsi Gartner (Hamish Hamilton)
✔The Cat’s Table, Michael Ondaatje (McClelland &Stewart)
Longlisted:
✔The Meagre Tarmac, Clark Blaise (Biblioasis)
✔The Beggar’s Garden, Michael Christie (HarperCollins)
✔Extensions, Myrna Dey (NeWest Press) Reader’s Choice
✔The Little Shadows, Marina Endicott (Doubleday)
✔Solitaria, Genni Gunn (Signature Editions)
✔Into the Heart of the Country, Pauline Holdstock (HarperCollins)
✔A World Elsewhere, Wayne Johnston (Knopf)
✔The Return, Dany Laferrière, Trans. David Homel (Douglas &McIntyre)
✔Monoceros, Suzette Mayr (Coach House)
✔A Good Man, Guy Vanderhaeghe (McClelland &Stewart)
✔Touch, Alexi Zentner (Knopf)
2010 (Juried by Michael Enright, Claire Messud and Ali Smith.)
Johanna Skibsrud, The Sentimentalists (W)
✔David Bergen, The Matter with Morris
✔Alexander MacLeod, Light Lifting
✔Sarah Selecky, This Cake Is for the Party
✔Kathleen Winter, Annabel
2009 (Juried by Russell Banks, Victoria Glendinning, and Alistair MacLeod.)
Linden MacIntyre, The Bishop’s Man (W)
Kim Echlin, The Disappeared
Annabel Lyon, The Golden Mean
✔Colin McAdam, Fall
Anne Michaels, The Winter Vault
2008 (Juried by Margaret Atwood, Bob Rae, and Colm Toibin.)
✔Joseph Boyden, Through Black Spruce (W)
Anthony De Sa, Barnacle Love
✔Marina Endicott, Good to a Fault
✔Rawi Hage, Cockroach
Mary Swan, The Boys in the Trees
2007 (Juried by David Bergen, Camilla Gibb, and Lorna Goodison.)
✔Elizabeth Hay, Late Nights on Air (W)
✔Michael Ondaatje, Divisadero
Daniel Poliquin, A Secret Between Us (Trans. Donald Winkler)
M. G. Vassanji, The Assassin’s Song
✔Alissa York, Effigy
2006 (Juried by Adrienne Clarkson, Alice Munro, and Michael Winter.)
✔Vincent Lam, Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures (W)
✔Rawi Hage, De Niro’s Game
✔Pascale Quiviger, The Perfect Circle (Trans. Sheila Fischman)
Gaétan Soucy, The Immaculate Conception (Trans. Lazer Lederhendler)
Carol Windley, Home Schooling
2005 (Juried by Warren Cariou, Elizabeth Hay, and Richard B. Wright.)
✔David Bergen, The Time in Between (W)
✔Camilla Gibb, Sweetness in the Belly
✔Lisa Moore, Alligator
✔Edeet Ravel, A Wall of Light
2004 (Juried by M. G. Vassanji, Alistair MacLeod, and Charlotte Gray.)
✔Alice Munro, Runaway (W)
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Wayson Choy, All That Matters
Pauline Holdstock, Beyond Measure
Paul Quarrington, Galveston
✔Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness
2003 (Juried by Rosalie Abella, David Staines, and Rudy Wiebe.)
M.G. Vassanji, The In-Between World of Vikram Lall (W)
✔Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
John Bemrose, The Island Walkers
John Gould, Kilter: 55 Fictions
✔Ann-Marie MacDonald, The Way the Crow Flies
2002 (Juried by Barbara Gowdy, Thomas King, and W. H. New.)
✔Austin Clarke, The Polished Hoe (W)
Bill Gaston, Mount Appetite
✔Wayne Johnston, The Navigator of New York
✔ Lisa Moore, Open
✔Carol Shields, Unless
2001 (Juried by David Adams Richards, Joan Clark, and Robert Fulford.)
✔Richard B. Wright, Clara Callan (W)
Michael Crummey, River Thieves
Michael Redhill, Martin Sloane
✔Timothy Taylor, Stanley Park
Jane Urquhart, The Stone Carvers
2000 (Juried by Margaret Atwood, Alistair MacLeod, and Jane Urquhart.)
✔Michael Ondaatje, Anil’s Ghost (W)
David Adams Richards, Mercy Among the Children (W)
Alan Cumyn, Burridge Unbound
✔Elizabeth Hay, A Student of Weather
✔Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach
Fred Stenson, The Trade
1999 (Juried by Alberto Manguel, Judith Mappin, and Nino Ricci.)
✔Bonnie Burnard, A Good House (W)
Anne Hébert, Am I Disturbing You?
Nancy Huston, The Mark of the Angel
David Macfarlane, Summer Gone
1998 (Juried by Margaret Atwood, Guy Vanderhaeghe, and Peter Gzowski.)
✔Alice Munro, The Love of a Good Woman (W)
✔Gail Anderson-Dargatz, A Recipe for Bees
✔Barbara Gowdy, The White Bone
Greg Hollingshead, The Healer
✔Wayne Johnston, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
1997 (Juried by Bonnie Burnard, Mavis Gallant, and Peter Gzowski.)
✔Mordecai Richler, Barney’s Version (W)
✔Shani Mootoo, Cereus Blooms at Night
Nino Ricci, Where She Has Gone
✔Carol Shields, Larry’s Party
1996 (Juried by Bonnie Burnard, Carol Shields, and David Staines.)
✔Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace (W)
✔Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees
✔Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces
✔Guy Vanderhaeghe, The Englishman’s Boy
1995 (Juried by Mordecai Richler, David Staines, and Jane Urquhart.)
✔Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance (W)
✔Barbara Gowdy, Mister Sandman
✔Leo McKay, Jr., Like This
✔Richard B. Wright, The Age of Longing
1994 (Juried by Alice Munro, Mordecai Richler, and David Staines.)
✔M.G. Vassanji, The Book of Secrets (W)
✔Eliza Clark, What You Need
✔Shyam Selvadurai, Funny Boy
Steve Weiner, The Museum of Love