Watch the Scotiabank Giller Prize finalists in conversation
The event was hosted by Q books columnist Jael Richardson
The five authors shortlisted for the 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize came together for a conversation on Thursday, Nov. 4.
The event, called Between the Pages, was hosted by Jael Richardson, book columnist for CBC Radio's Q and the founder of the Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD).
The event took place Koerner Hall in Toronto, and was streamed online for a virtual audience.
You can watch the event in the YouTube player at the top of this story.
The five finalists are:
- What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad
- Glorious Frazzled Beings by Angélique Lalonde
- The Son of the House by Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia
- The Listeners by Jordan Tannahill
- Fight Night by Miriam Toews
The winner will be announced on Nov. 8, 2021.
The ceremony will be hosted by poet Rupi Kaur and actor Paul Sun-Hyung Lee.
It will be broadcast on CBC TV, CBC Gem, CBC Listen and CBC Radio at 9 p.m. local time (11:30 AT/12 midnight NT) and will be streamed online at CBC Books, YouTube and Facebook at 9 p.m. ET.
Last year's winner was Toronto writer Souvankham Thammavongsa. She won for her short story collection How to Pronounce Knife.
Other past Giller Prize winners include Ian Williams for Reproduction, Esi Edugyan for Washington Black and Half-Blood Blues, Michael Redhill for Bellevue Square, Margaret Atwood for Alias Grace, Mordecai Richler for Barney's Version, Alice Munro for Runaway, André Alexis for Fifteen Dogs and Madeleine Thien for Do Not Say We Have Nothing.
Jack Rabinovitch founded the prize in honour of his late wife Doris Giller in 1994. Rabinovitch died in 2017 at the age of 87.
