How to tune into the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize
CBC Books | | Posted: September 30, 2019 3:25 PM | Last Updated: November 19, 2019
The 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize gala, hosted by Jann Arden, will be broadcast live on CBC television, radio and online on Nov. 18, 2019.
Watch on television: CBC at 9:00 p.m. local time (11:30 p.m. AT/12:00 a.m. NT).
Livestream: CBCBooks.ca, Gem, YouTube or Facebook at 9:00 p.m. ET.
Listen: Find your CBC Radio One frequency or listen online at 9:00 p.m. local time (10:00 p.m. AT/10:30 p.m. NT).
Listen: Find your CBC Radio One frequency or listen online at 9:00 p.m. local time (10:00 p.m. AT/10:30 p.m. NT).
The Scotiabank Giller Prize awards $100,000 to the year's best work of Canadian fiction.
The hour-long show features all the shortlisted books, revealing the winner at the end.
- Immigrant City by David Bezmozgis
- Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club by Megan Gail Coles
- The Innocents by Michael Crummey
- Dual Citizens by Alix Ohlin
- Lampedusa by Steven Price
- Reproduction by Ian Williams
Esi Edugyan won the 2018 prize for Washington Black.
Other past Giller Prize winners include Rohinton Mistry for A Fine Balance, 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.