The Scotiabank Giller Prize recognizes excellence in Canadian fiction by endowing a cash prize of $50,000 annually, the largest purse for literature in the country.
For the past nine years the IFOA has welcomed the authors shortlisted for the prize to read from their nominated books on the final day of the Festival, and this year there will be no exception.
All five finalists have been confirmed to appear: Will Ferguson, Alix Ohlin, Nancy Richler, Kim Thúy and Russell Wangersky.
The CBC's Carol Off hosts and moderates.
Tickets: $25/$20 supporters
This event also includes the presentation of the $10,000 Harbourfront Festival Prize.
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Nominated for both an IMPAC Dublin Award and a Commonwealth Writers Prize, and a three-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, Will Ferguson’s work has been published in more than 20 languages around the world. His memoirs include Beyond Belfast, Hitching Rides with Buddha, and most recently the humour collection Canadian Pie. His novels include Happiness and Spanish Fly. Ferguson's latest book, 419, is a tale of heartbreak and suspense that takes readers behind the scene of the world’s most insidious internet scam.
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Carol Off is the critically acclaimed host of CBC Radio One’s As It Happens. She is the creator of many award-winning documentaries and is the author of three books, including Bitter Chocolate: Investigating the Dark Side of the World’s Most Seductive Sweet, which chronicles the international cocoa industry and the machinations behind Big Chocolate.
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Alix Ohlin is the author of The Missing Person and Babylon and Other Stories. Her work has appeared in Best American Short Stories, Best New American Voices and on public radio’s Selected Shorts. She lives in Easton, Pennsylvania, where she teaches at Lafayette College and in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. In her new short story collection, Signs and Wonders, characters are divorced and beginning to date again, childless and longing for children, married and aching for more. Ohlin shares Inside, a novel that begins with a Montreal therapist who stumbles across a man who has failed to hang himself.
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Born in Montreal, Nancy Richler lived for many years in Vancouver but has recently returned to her hometown. Her first novel, Throwaway Angels, was shortlisted for the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Crime Novel. Her second novel, Your Mouth Is Lovely, won a Canadian Jewish Book Award for fiction and Italy’s Adei-Wizo Prize. It has been translated into seven languages. Richler presents The Imposter Bride, about a young woman who disappears leaving her baby daughter with only a diary, an uncut diamond and a need to discover the truth.
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Kim Thúy has worked as a seamstress, interpreter, lawyer, and restaurant owner. She currently lives in Montreal where she devotes herself to writing. Translated from the French by Sheila Fischman, Thúy presents her Governor General’s Literary Award-winning Ru, a lullaby for Vietnam and a love letter to a new homeland.
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Russell Wangersky has won multiple awards, including the 2010 BMO Winterset Award for his first novel, The Glass Harmonica, and three national awards for non-fiction for Burning Down the House. His short story collection, The Hour of Bad Decisions, was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and shortlisted for a regional Commonwealth Writers' Prize. He lives in St. John’s Newfoundland, where he is a journalist at the Telegram. Wangersky’s latest collection of short stories, Whirl Away, looks at what happens when people’s personal coping skills go awry.
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