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Giller 2023

The Giller Prize was founded in 1994 by Jack Rabinovitch in honour of his late wife, literary journalist Doris Giller, who passed away from cancer the year before. The award recognized excellence in Canadian fiction – long format or short stories – and endowed a cash prize annually of $25,000.00, the largest purse for literature in the country.

Wait Softly Brother by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer

July 16, 2024September 18, 2023 by Michael Bryson

From lost siblings to the horrors of war to tales of selkie wives, Wait Softly Brother is filled with questions about memory, reality and the truths hidden in family lore.

Categories Book Awards, Fiction, Giller 2023 Tags 2023 Giller, fiction, Giller Longlisted

All the Colour in The World by C.S. Richardson

September 12, 2023 by Laura Patterson and Christina Barber

The story of the restorative power of art in one man’s life, set against the sweep of the twentieth century—from Toronto in the ’20s and ’30s, through the killing fields of World War II, to 1960s Sicily.

Categories Book Awards, Fiction, Giller 2023 Tags fiction, Giller Longlisted

Away From The Dead by David Bergen

September 11, 2023 by Sarah Marie

In this beautifully crafted novel, David Bergen takes us to a place where chaos reigns, where answers come from everywhere and nowhere, and where both the beauty and horror of humanity are on full display.

Categories Book Awards, Fiction, Giller 2023 Tags 2023 Giller, Giller Longlisted

Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein

November 14, 2023September 3, 2023 by Michael Greenstein

Study for Obedience is a finely tuned, unsettling novel that confirms Bernstein as one of the most exciting voices of her generation.

Categories Book Awards, Booker 2023 Reviews, Contemporary Fiction, Feminist, Fiction, Giller 2023 Tags Booker, Booker Longlisted, fiction, Giller Longlisted

The Clarion by Nina Dunic

January 2, 2025July 31, 2023 by Sarah Marie

he Clarion explores rituals of connection and belonging, themes of intimacy and performance, and how far we wander to find, or lose, our sense of self.

Categories Fiction, Giller 2023 Tags fiction, Giller Longlisted

Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton

September 9, 2023April 10, 2023 by Michael Greenstein

Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood is an electrifying eco-thriller grounded in a provocative and sly exploration of some of the most pressing issues of our times.

Categories Fiction, Giller 2023, Thriller Tags Giller Longlisted, New Zealand, psychological thriller

The Double Life of Benson Yu by Kevin Chong

May 27, 2024April 8, 2023 by Laurie Burns

This fresh and unique work of metafiction follows Benson Yu, a writer, who loses control of his own narrative when he attempts to write the story of his fraught upbringing in 1980s Chinatown.

Categories Fiction, Giller 2023 Tags Asian, Giller Longlisted, metafiction

We Have Never Lived On Earth: Stories by Kasia Van Schaik

May 29, 2024March 13, 2023 by Wanda Baxter

Kasia Van Schaik’s debut story collection follows the journey of Charlotte Ferrier, a child of divorce raised by a single mother in a small town in British Columbia after moving from South Africa.

Categories Best Books of 2023, Book Awards, Fiction, First Book, Giller 2023, Short Fiction, Short Stories Tags First Book, Giller Longlisted, short fiction, short stories

We Meant Well by Erum Shazia Hasan

September 9, 2023January 2, 2023 by Ian Colford

A propulsive debut that grapples with timely questions about what it means to be charitable, who deserves what, and who gets the power to decide.

Categories Fiction, First Book, Giller 2023 Tags Africa, Debut novel, Giller Longlisted, orphans

The Rooftop Garden by Menaka Raman-Wilms

May 24, 2024November 18, 2022 by Diana Stevan

The Rooftop Garden is a novel about Nabila, a researcher who studies seaweed in warming oceans, and her childhood friend Matthew. Now both in their twenties, Matthew has disappeared from his Toronto home, and Nabila travels to Berlin to find him and try to bring him back.

Categories Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, Giller 2023 Tags character-driven, fiction, Giller Longlisted

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