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The Giller Prize (known as the Scotiabank Giller Prize from 2005-2023) [1] is a literary award given to a Canadian author of a novel or short story collection published in English (including translation) the previous year, after an annual juried competition between publishers who submit entries.
The award was judged by novelist David Adams Richards, author Joan Clark, and journalist Robert Fulford. [8] It also won the Trillium Book Award and became the first book to have won all the three awards. [4] Wright had earlier received nominations for both the Giller Prize and the Governor General's Award in 1995 for his novel The Age of Longing.
André Alexis is a Canadian writer who was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, grew up in Ottawa, and now [when?] lives in Toronto, Ontario. [1] He has received numerous awards including the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize, the Giller Prize, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and the Trillium Award.
It won the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and was shortlisted for the Amazon First Novel Prize, the Toronto Book Award, and longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award for the best work of global fiction. [ 2 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] It was published in the United States by Europa Books, in the United Kingdom by Dialogue Books, and translated into Italian.
The Sleeping Car Porter is a novel by Canadian writer Suzette Mayr, published in August 2022 by Coach House Books. [1] Set in the 1920s, the novel centres on Baxter, a Black Canadian and closeted gay immigrant from the Caribbean who is working as a railway porter to save money to fund his dream of getting educated as a dentist.
Fifteen Dogs: An Apologue is a novel by Canadian writer André Alexis.Published by Coach House Books in 2015, the novel was the winner of the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize [1] and the 2015 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, [2] as well as the 2017 edition of Canada Reads.
It was shortlisted for the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize. [7] It was also nominated for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction [ 8 ] and the Encore Award . Her short story collection, Daydreams of Angels, was published in 2015 [ 9 ] and was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize . [ 10 ]