Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalists

Catherine Belyea is a broadcaster whose career in private radio and at the CBC has centred on music and the arts. This is the 13th year she has hosted readings and interviews at the IFOA.

After completing her Ph.D. on the subject of Ojibway storytelling, Kim Echlin went in search of stories herself. Her travels took her to China, France, Zimbabwe and the Marshall Islands. After returning to Canada she became an arts documentary producer with The Journal on CBC, and a writer for various publications. Author of two previous novels, Elephant Winter and Dagmar’s Daughter, Echlin presents her third novel, the Scotiabank Giller Prize-nominated The Disappeared, a story of love and longing with the terrors of Khmer Rouge Cambodia at its heart.

Annabel Lyon has published two award-nominated short story collections: Oxygen and The Best Thing for You. She lives in New Westminster, B.C.. The Golden Mean, Lyon’s much anticipated debut novel, is a vivid imagining of the friendship between the philosopher Aristotle and the young Alexander the Great. Told from the frank point-of-view of Aristotle himself, The Golden Mean reveals how Aristotle’s genius influenced the boy who would conquer the known world. The novel is currently shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Governor General's Literary Award and and Scotiabank Giller Prizes.

Linden MacIntyre is one of Canada’s most distinguished broadcast journalists. The winner of nine Gemini Awards, he is the co-host of CBC Television’s the fifth estate and has been involved in the production of documentaries and stories from all over the world. He presents his new novel, The Bishop’s Man, in which a priest with a reputation for disciplining wayward priests and the containment of political scandal in the church, is forced to confront the consequences of past cover-ups and the suppression of his own human needs. The novel is shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.

Colin McAdam grew up in Hong Kong, Denmark, England and Barbados, as well as several cities in Canada. He studied at McGill University and the University of Toronto, and received a Ph.D. in English literature from Cambridge University. He currently lives in Montreal. Fall, his latest, Scotiabank Giller Prize-nominated novel, is a psychological thriller that offers a glimpse into life at a boarding school.

Anne Michaels’ internationally lauded debut novel, Fugitive Pieces, won the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Trillium Book Award, and the Guardian Fiction Award, to name a few. It remained on the Canadian bestseller list for more than two years and was recently made into an acclaimed feature film. Michaels is also the author of three collections of poetry. Michaels’ presents her long-awaited second novel, The Winter Vault, a powerful story woven across decades and continents, and which confirms her place as one of the most accomplished writers writing today. The novel is shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.