Watch the 2024 Giller Prize replay
The gala was broadcast on CBC radio, television and online on Monday, Nov. 18, 2024
Anne Michaels won the 2024 Scotiabank Giller Prize for her novel Held on Monday, Nov. 18.
The Scotiabank Giller Prize awards $100,000 to the year's best work of Canadian fiction.
The ceremony was hosted by writers Ian Williams and Mark Sakamoto, journalist Johanna Schneller and singer Measha Brueggergosman-Lee.
It was broadcast on CBC TV, CBC Gem, CBC Listen and CBC Radio and CBC's YouTube channel.
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The five finalists were:
- What I Know About You by Éric Chacour, translated by Pablo Strauss
- Curiosities by Anne Fleming
- Prairie Edge by Conor Kerr
- Held by Anne Michaels
- Peacocks of Instagram by Deepa Rajagopalan
Last year's winner was Sarah Bernstein for her novel Study for Obedience.
Other past Giller Prize winners include Omar El Akkad for What Strange Paradise, Souvankham Thammavongsa for How to Pronounce Knife, Esi Edugyan for Washington Black, Michael Redhill for Bellevue Square, Margaret Atwood for Alias Grace, Mordecai Richler for Barney's Version, Alice Munro for Runaway, André Alexis for Fifteen Dogs and Madeleine Thien for Do Not Say We Have Nothing.
Toronto businessman Jack Rabinovitch founded the prize in honour of his late wife, literary journalist Doris Giller, in 1994. Rabinovitch died in 2017 at the age of 87.
