Watch the Scotiabank Giller Prize shortlist announcement live on CBC Books' Facebook page
WATCH THE ANNOUNCEMENT HERE
CBC Books will be streaming the Scotiabank Giller Prize shortlist announcement live on Facebook. Tune in at 11 a.m. ET on Monday, Oct. 2, 2017 to find out which books will be vying for the $100,000 prize — the richest in Canadian literature.
The event is taking place at the Scotiabank Centre in Toronto, Ont., and will be hosted by CBC's Gill Deacon.
The finalists will be chosen from the longlist, which is comprised of:
- Brother by David Chariandy
- Transit by Rachel Cusk
- The Bone Mother by David Demchuk
- We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night by Joel Thomas Hynes
- Minds of Winter by Ed O'Loughlin
- Boundary by Andrée A. Michaud, translated by Donald Winkler
- Tumbleweed by Josip Novakovich
- Next Year, For Sure by Zoey Leigh Peterson
- Bellevue Square by Michael Redhill
- Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson
- The Dark and Other Love Stories by Deborah Willis
- I Am a Truck by Michelle Winters
The works were selected by the 2017 jury, consisting of Canadian writers André Alexis, Anita Rau Badami and Lynn Coady, American author Nathan Englander and English novelist Richard Beard.
The winner will be announced on Nov. 20, 2017 during a gala event in Toronto. The ceremony will be broadcast on CBC.
Last year's winner was Madeleine Thien for her novel Do Not Say We Have Nothing.