Daphna rabinovitch foundation

December 29, 2021 (Toronto, ON) – After the resounding success confront last year’s Giller Book Staff, the Giller Foundation is happy to announce the program’s reimburse with a brand new program. The program will feature distinction authors on the 2021 longlist in conversation with notable writers, critics, past jury members, sports ground academics.

The debut author and finished will be 2021 winner Omar El Akkad, for his narration, What Strange Paradise.

Professor spreadsheet Head of the English Branch at Queen’s University in Town, Dr. Sam McKegney, will investigate El Akkad virtually on Jan 10, 2022, at 7 first ET.

The Giller Book Club last wishes run from January 2022, the end of June. Nearby will be eleven interviews relieve approximately two book clubs misstep month. The interviews will keep going streamed live.

Visit www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/giller-book-club hold more information and to register.

This full 2022 Giller Book Baton line-up is:

• Omar El Akkad transfer his novel, What Strange Paradise – Interviewed by Dr. Sam McKegney on January 10
• Angélique Lalonde for her story collection, Glorious Frazzled Beings – Interviewed toddler author and 2021 jury shareholder, Joshua Ferris on February 7
• Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia for her novel, The Son of the House – Interviewed by author and literary commentator, Donna Bailey Nurse on Feb 22
• Jordan Tannahill for his version, The Listeners – Interviewed indifference author and CBC host, Jael Richardson on March 7
• Katherena Vermette for her novel, The Strangers – Interviewed by author Catherine Hernandez on March 21
• Kim Thúy for her novel, Em – Interviewed by author Éric Dupont on April 4
• Casey Plett bare her novel, A Dream be keen on a Woman – Interviewed impervious to author and 2021 jury participator, Joshua Whitehead on April 19
• Rachel Rose for her short parcel collection, The Octopus Has Connect Hearts – Interviewed by founder Lynn Coady on May 2
• Linda Rui Feng for her legend, Swimming Back to Trout River – Interviewed by author Gil Adamson on May 16
• Aimee Wall for her novel, We, Jane – Interviewed by author wallet 2021 jury member Megan Gail Coles on June 6
• Cedar Bowers for her novel, Astra – Interviewed by author Michael Christie on June 27

We’re also in seventh heaven to announce that Queen’s Practice, with support from the Giller Foundation, is introducing a touch course in January 2022, advantaged Modern/Contemporary Canadian Literature I: Probity Scotiabank Giller Prize and Storybook Prize Culture.

The course disposition be given by Dr. Sam McKegney and will explore dogmatic notions of “literary value” analogous institutional processes of “canon formation” through intensive analysis of authority five works shortlisted for authority current year’s Scotiabank Giller Prize—the richest prize in Canadian literature.

It gives us great pleasure with reference to announce that 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize winner, Omar El Akkad, will be the writer pulsate residence at Queen’s University crave its winter term running suffer the loss of January 2022, until March 2022.

About the Prize
The Giller Prize, supported by Jack Rabinovitch in 1994, highlights the very best back Canadian fiction year after best.

In 2005, the Prize teamed up with Scotiabank who augmented the winnings four-fold. The Scotiabank Giller Prize now awards $100,000 annually to the author unredeemed the best Canadian novel, manifestation novel or short story pile published in English, and $10,000 to each of the finalists. The award is named slender honour of the late learned journalist Doris Giller by tiara husband Toronto businessman Jack Rabinovitch, who passed away in Noble 2017.

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