Ahead of Monday night’s gala ceremony in Toronto where the winner of the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize will be announced and the $100,000 prize awarded, we wanted to give readers
The $60,000 award annually honours the best novel or short story collection published in Canada. The other finalists are Rima Elkouri, Nicholas Herring and Darcy Tamayose.
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Margaret Atwood has said that her late partner, the writer Graeme Gibson, would have been “very tickled” that a Canadian literary prize is being renamed after the couple, to honour their “unwavering commitment to supporting Canadian culture”.
Gibson, who died in 2019, and Atwood were two of the five co-founders of the Writers’ Trust of Canada in 1976. On Wednesday, the organisation said that because of their “tireless efforts to build structural supports for the then-nascent Canadian literary community”, it is now renaming its fiction award, won in the past by authors including Alice Munro, as the Atwood Gibson prize.