Living Canon

Giller Prize

The Scotiabank Giller Prize is Canada’s premier award for fiction, recognizing excellence in Canadian novels and short story collections since 1994.

• Pick a Colour by Souvankham Thammavongsa

  2025GillerFiction
• Held by Anne Michaels

  2024GillerFiction
• Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein

  2023GillerFiction
• 
  The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr

  2022GillerFiction
• What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad

  2021GillerFiction
• 
  How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa

  2020GillerFiction
• 
  Reproduction by Ian Williams

  2019GillerFiction
• Washington Black by Esi Edugyan

  2018GillerFiction
• 
  Bellevue Square by Michael Redhill

  2017GillerFiction
• 
  Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien

  2016GillerFiction
• 
  Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis

  2015GillerFiction
• 
  Us Conductors by Sean Michaels

  2014GillerFiction
• 
  Hellgoing by Lynn Coady

  2013GillerFiction
• 
  419 by Will Ferguson

  2012GillerFiction
• 
  Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan

  2011GillerFiction
• The Sentimentalists by Johanna Skibsrud

  2010GillerFiction
• The Bishop's Man by Linden MacIntyre

  2009GillerFiction
• 
  Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden

  2008GillerFiction
• Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay

  2007GillerFiction
• 
  Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam

  2006GillerFiction
• 
  The Time in Between by David Bergen

  2005GillerFiction
• 
  Runaway by Alice Munro

  2004GillerFiction
• 
  The In-Between World of Vikram Lall by M. G. Vassanji

  2003GillerFiction
• The Polished Hoe by Austin Clarke

  2002GillerFiction
• 
  Clara Callan by Richard B. Wright

  2001GillerFiction
• 
  Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje

  2000GillerFiction
• 
  A Good House by Bonnie Burnard

  1999GillerFiction
• 
  The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro

  1998GillerFiction
• Barney's Version by Mordecai Richler

  1997GillerFiction
• 
  Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

  1996GillerFiction
• A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

  1995GillerFiction
• The Book of Secrets by M. G. Vassanji

  1994GillerFiction

• Fiction

See also

• Arthur C. Clarke Award
• Booker Prize
• Caldecott Medal
• Carnegie Medal
• Costa Book Awards
• Edgar Awards
• Hugo Awards
• International Booker Prize
• Kirkus Prize
• Lambda Literary Awards
• Locus Awards
• National Book Award
• National Book Critics Circle Award
• Nebula Awards
• Newbery Medal
• Nobel Prize in Literature
• PEN/Faulkner Award
• PEN/Hemingway Award
• Pulitzer Prizes
• Women’s Prize for Fiction
• World Fantasy Awards