The Giller Prize is awarded annually to the author of the best Canadian novel or short story collection published in English. The Giller Prize is named in honour of the late literary journalist Doris Giller and was founded in 1994 by her husband, Toronto businessman Jack Rabinovitch.
2006
 Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures: Stories by Vincent Lam
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Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures welcomes readers into a world where the most mundane events can quickly become life or death. By following four young medical students and physicians, this debut collection is a riveting, eye-opening account of what it means to be a doctor. (read more)
2005
 The Time in Between by David Bergen
Review
"A beautifully composed, unflinching and harrowing story. Perhaps the best fiction yet to confront and comprehend the legacy of Vietnam." Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) (read more)
2004
 The Runaway by Alice Munro
Review
"Someone writing at this level well into her seventies...is a literary inspiration herself.... Maybe even more stories are lying in wait. Such first-rate abundance is an astonishment in any lifetime, let alone that of a middle-class mother, and is — to rework Faulkner's quip regarding Keats — worth any number of young daughters." Lorrie Moore (read more)
2003
 The In-between World of Vikram Lall by M. G. Vassanji
Publisher Comments
M. G. Vassanji, author of The Book of Secrets, winner of the first Giller prize, brings us a novel that is rich in sensuous detail and political insight, and brilliantly captures the tyranny of history and memory, and questions one's role... (read more)
2002
 The Polished Hoe by Austin Clarke
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Chapter One "My name is mary. People in this Village call me Mary-Mathilda. Or, Tilda, for short. To my mother I was Mary-girl. My names I am christen with are Mary Gertrude Mathilda, but I don't use Gertrude, because my maid has the same name... (read more)
2001
 Clara Callan by Richard Bruce Wright
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In a small town in Canada, Clara Callan reluctantly takes leave of her sister, Nora, who is bound for New York. It's a time when the growing threat of fascism in Europe is a constant worry, and people escape from reality through radio and the... (read more)
2000
 Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
Powells.com Staff Pick
Anil’s Ghost is a violent, chaotic war story, a page-turning, word-churning flash of a novel. Anil, a forensic anthropologist, "grows up in Sri Lanka," as the author summarized, "goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate... (read more)
1999
 A Good House by Bonnie Burnard
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A Good House begins in 1949 in Stonebrook, Ontario, home to the Chamers family. The postwar boom and hope for the future color every facet of life: The possibilities seem limitless for Bill, his wife, Sylvia, and their three children. In the... (read more)
1998
 The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro
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In eight new stories, a master of the form extends and magnifies her great themes — the vagaries of love, the passion that leads down unexpected paths, the chaos hovering just under the surface of things, and the strange, often comical desires... (read more)
1997
 Barney's Version by Mordecai Richler
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When a sixty-seven-year-old Canadian rascal named Bernard Panofsky decides to write "the true story of my wasted life." the result is Barney's Version, Mordecai Richler's wickedly funny blend of satire, social commentary, and brilliant introspection... (read more)
1996
 Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood's books have sold over three million copies in the United States alone. She has long been one of the world's most respected novelist as well as one of its most popular. Alias Grace, her latest novel and a finalist for England... (read more)
1995
 A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Powells.com Staff Pick
For a while it seemed that novels set in India were all the rage. My favorite is A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry. His massive tome ranges across the vast chasms of that giant subcontinent, all from the cramped apartment of Dina... (read more)
1994
 The Book of Secrets by M. G. Vassanji
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In 1988, a retired schoolteacher named Pius Fernandes receives an old diary found in the back room of an East African shop. Written in 1913 by a British colonial administrator, the diary captivates Fernandes, who begins to research the coded history... (read more)
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