Who Will Win the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize?
Award History and Current Nominees
The Scotiabank Giller Prize is a prestigious literary award that has been bestowed upon Canadian authors for outstanding works of fiction since 1994. Notable past winners include Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, and Michael Ondaatje. This year, five authors have been nominated for the award:
- Shelagh Stephenson for The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
- David Bergen for Here the Dark
- Kim Fu for Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
- Casey Plett for A Dream of a Woman
- Tsering Yangzom Lama for We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies
Contenders Analysis
Anne Michaels, the acclaimed author of Fugitive Pieces, has been nominated for the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize for her latest novel, All We Saw. The book is a meditation on loss, memory, and the search for meaning in the aftermath of trauma.
Madeleine Thien, the author of the 2016 Giller Prize-winning novel Do Not Say We Have Nothing has been nominated for The Administration of Small Things. The book is a multi-generational saga that explores the lives of Chinese immigrants in Canada.
The winner of this year's award will be announced on November 7, 2023. The winner will receive $100,000, and each of the other nominees will receive $10,000.
