Image | The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr

Caption: Suzette Mayr won the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize for the novel The Sleeping Car Porter. (Ryan Emberley)

Image | 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize

Caption: Omar El Akkad wins the 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel 'What Strange Paradise', at a gala in Toronto, Monday, Nov. 8, 2021. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press)

Image | Giller winner Souvankham Thammavongsa

Caption: Souvankham Thammavongsa accepts the 2020 Giller Prize for her collection of short stories, 'How to Pronounce Knife,' at her home in Toronto Nov. 9, 2020. (Nathan Dharamshi)

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Caption: Ian Williams celebrates winning the 2019 Giller Prize for his book Reproduction at a gala ceremony in Toronto. (Chris Young/Canadian Press)

Image | Esi Edugyan

Caption: Esi Edugyan is the author of the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning Washington Blues. (Chris Young/Canadian Press)

Image | Michael Redhill wins the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize

Caption: Michael Redhill's novel Bellevue Square won the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize. (Chris Young/Canadian Press)

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Caption: Madeleine Thien's novel Do Not Say We Have Nothing won the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize. (Alfred A. Knopf Canada)

Image | André Alexis

Caption: André Alexis' novel Fifteen Dogs won the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2015. (CBC)

Image | HIWI - Sean Michaels

Caption: Sean Michaels won the Giller Prize for his novel Us Conductors. (John Londono/Random House Canada)

Image | Lynn Coady

Caption: Author Lynn Coady, who has penned novels as well as short story collections, said that the latter can be a difficult, unforgiving genre. (CBC)

Image | MLIB - Happiness by Will Ferguson

Caption: Will Ferguson won the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2012. (Alex Ferguson/Penguin Canada)

Image | MLIB - Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan

Caption: Esi Edugyan won the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize for Half-Blood Blues. (Courtesy of HarperCollins Publishers)

Image | AUTHOR/BOOK Johanna Skibsrud; The Sentimentalists

Caption: Johanna Skibsrud won the 2010 prize for The Sentimentalists. (Gaspereau Press)

Image | Linden MacIntyre

Caption: Linden MacIntyre won in 2009 for The Bishop’s Man. (Random House Canada)

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Caption: Joseph Boyden won the 2008 prize for his book "Through Black Spruce."

Image | Hay

Caption: Hay won a Giller Prize in 2007. (McClelland & Stewart)

Image | BOOK/AUTHOR: Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam

Caption: In 2006, Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam won the prize. (Doubleday Canada/Margarita Lam Antoniades)

Image | BOOK/AUTHOR: The Time In Between by David Bergen

Caption: The Time In Between by David Bergen won in 2005. (McClelland & Stewart)

Image | BOOK/AUTHOR: Runaway by Alice Munro

Caption: Alice Munro won in 2004 for Runaway.

Image | BOOK/AUTHOR: The In-Between World of Vikram Lall by M.G. Vassanji

Caption: The In-Between World of Vikram Lall, by M.G. Vassanji, won the Giller Prize in 2003. (Derek Shapton/Anchor Canada)

Image | BOOK/AUTHOR: The Polished Hoe by Austin Clarke

Caption: The Polished Hoe by Austin Clarke won the prize in 2002. (Dundurn)

Image | BOOK/AUTHOR: Clara Callan by Richard B. Wright

Caption: The 2001 Giller went to Clara Callan by late author Richard B. Wright.

Image | BOOK/AUTHOR: Mercy Among the Children by David Adams Richards & Anil's Ghost by Mic

Caption: In the first and, so far, only tie of the awards, the 2000 Giller Prize went to Mercy Among the Children by David Adams Richards and Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje.

Image | BOOK/AUTHOR: A Good House by Bonnie Burnard

Caption: Bonnie Burnard won the 1999 Giller Prize for A Good House.

Image | BOOK/AUTHOR: The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro

Caption: The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro won the Giller Prize in 1998.

Image | BOOK/AUTHOR: Barney’s Version by Mordecai Richler

Caption: Mordecai Richler's Barney’s Version won in 1997. (Vintage Canada/Jillian Edelstein)

Image | BOOK/AUTHOR: Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

Caption: Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood won the Giller in 1996.

Image | BOOK/AUTHOR: The Book of Secrets by M.G. Vassanji

Caption: Rohinton Mistry won the 1995 Giller Prize. (New Canadian Library, F. Mistry)

Image | AUTHOR/BOOK: Vassanji

Caption: The Book of Secrets by M.G. Vassanji won the Giller in 1994.