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Giller and Prize
The Time in Between was the recipient of the 2005 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
Category: Scotiabank Giller Prize winning works
* Alias Grace ( 1996, winner of the 1996 Giller Prize, finalist for the 1996 Booker Prize and the 1996 Governor General's Award, shortlisted for the 1997 Orange Prize for Fiction )
* 1997 The Giller Prize for Barney's Version.
His son Alexander MacLeod is also a writer, whose debut short story collection Light Lifting was a Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist in 2010.
His third book, and second novel, A Fine Balance ( 1995 ), won the second annual Giller Prize in 1995, and in 1996, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction.
* 1995: Giller Prize, A Fine Balance
Her last novel, Unless ( 2002 ), was nominated for the 2002 Giller Prize, the Governor General's Award, the Booker Prize and the 2003 Orange Prize for Fiction.
* nominations for the Giller Prize ( Larry's Party and Unless )
* Unless, 2002 ( winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, shortlisted in 2002 Man / Booker Prize and ScotiaBank / Giller Prize, and shortlisted in 2003 Orange Prize )
The Scotiabank Giller Prize, or Giller Prize, 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 prize was established as the Giller Prize in 1994 by Toronto businessman Jack Rabinovitch in honour of his late wife Doris Giller, a former literary editor at the Toronto Star, and is awarded in November of each year along with a cash reward ( then CAN $ 25, 000 ).
On September 22, 2005, the Giller Prize established an endorsement deal with Scotiabank, a major Canadian bank.

Giller and for
Following Vincent Lam's win of the Giller Prize in 2006, Geist columnist Stephen Henighan criticized the Giller Prize for its apparent dependency for its shortlists and winners on books published by Bertelsmann AG-affiliated Canadian publishing houses, all of which are based in Toronto.
Arguing that the trend towards centralization of Canadian publishing in Toronto has led to a monopolistic control of the Giller Prize by Bertelsmann and its authors, Henighan wrote, " Year after year the vast majority of the books shortlisted for the Giller came from the triumvirate of publishers owned by the Bertelsmann Group: Knopf Canada, Doubleday Canada and Random House Canada.
Montrealer Johanna Skibsrud won the Giller Prize that year for her novel The Sentimentalists, published by independent Gaspereau Press.
In 2006, the Giller Prize publicized its preliminary longlist for the first time.
In 2011, the Giller Prize committee incorporated a Readers ' Choice process into its longlist for the first time, allowing members of the general public to nominate and make the case for books of their own choosing, from which the winning book would be included in the long list.
Choy's latest novel, All That Matters, was published in 2004 and was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.
* Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Richard B. Wright – Clara Callan
* Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost-tied with: David Adams Richards, Mercy Among the Children
* Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Bonnie Burnard: A Good House
* Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Alice Munro: The Love of a Good Woman
* Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Mordecai Richler :-Barney's Version

Giller and best
Vassanji has been nominated for the Giller Prize for best work of fiction in Canada three times, winning twice.

Giller and Canadian
* Giller Prize at The Canadian Encyclopedia
* Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Margaret Atwood :-Alias Grace
* Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
* The first Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction is awarded.
* Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: M. G.
Gowdy has been nominated, repeatedly, for every major Canadian book prize, including the Giller Prize ( twice short-listed, once long-listed ); the Governor General's Award ( three-times short-listed ); and the Rogers Writers ' Trust Fiction Prize ( twice-shorted listed ).
* Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace
* Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Mordecai Richler-Barney's Version
* Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Alice Munro: The Love of a Good Woman
* Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Bonnie Burnard, A Good House
* Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Michael Ondaatje: Anil's Ghost and David Adams Richards: Mercy Among the Children
* Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Richard B. Wright: Clara Callan

Giller and novel
In 1995, she was awarded the Marian Engel Award, and in 1999, she won the Giller Prize for her novel, A Good House.
Her 2011 novel The Antagonist was shortlisted for the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
* November 5-Austin Clarke wins the Giller Prize for his novel The Polished Hoe
A novel, The Englishman's Boy ( 1996 ), won him a second Governor General's Award for Fiction and the Saskatchewan Book Award for Fiction and for Best Book of the Year, and it was shortlisted for both the Giller Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
His most recent novel, The Assassin's Song was short-listed for the 2007 Giller Prize, the Rogers Prize, and the Governor General's Prize in Canada, as well as the Crossword Prize in India.
His most recent novel, Cities of Refuge, was shortlisted for the Rogers Writers ' Trust Fiction Prize, longlisted for the Giller Prize, and named a Globe & Mail Best Book of the Year and a Now Magazine Top Ten of 2010.
His debut novel, The Projectionist ( 1997 ), was nominated for the Giller Prize and the Trillium Book Award.
The novel, about a teenage girl who longs to escape her small Dutch Mennonite town and hang out with Lou Reed in the slums of New York City, was also nominated for the Giller Prize and was the winning title in the 2006 edition of Canada Reads.
Her 1987 novel The Blackbird's Song was nominated for the Books in Canada First Novel Award, and her 2003 novel Beyond Measure was nominated for the Giller Prize.
The novel was nominated for the Giller Prize and was awarded the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.
Her 2000 novel What the Body Remembers won the Commonwealth Writers ' Prize ( Canadian / Caribbean Region ), and her 2004 novel The Tiger Claw was nominated for the Giller Prize.
This novel went on to win three of Canada's major literary awards: The Giller Prize, the Trillium Book Award, and the Governor General's Award.
Her first novel, Alligator ( 2005 ), was also nominated for the Giller Prize.
The novel was subsequently shortlisted for the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize and for the Governor General's Awards.
Her 2011 novel Better Living Through Plastic Explosives was a shortlisted nominee for the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
The Matter with Morris, his most recent novel, published in 2010, was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.

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