How to tune into the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize
CBC Books | Posted: November 4, 2022 7:29 PM | Last Updated: November 4, 2022
The gala will be broadcast on CBC radio, television and online on Monday, Nov. 7, 2022
The 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize gala will be broadcast live on CBC radio, television and online on Monday, Nov. 7.
The ceremony will be hosted by bestselling poet Rupi Kaur and Alias Grace star Sarah Gadon.
Watch on television: CBC at 9:00 p.m. local time (11:30 p.m. AT/12:00 a.m. NT).
Listen: Find your CBC Radio One frequency or listen online with CBC Listen 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.
The five finalists are:
- Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu
- Stray Dogs by Rawi Hage
- The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr
- If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga
- We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies by Tsering Yangzom Lama
Last year's winner was Omar El Akkad for his novel What Strange Paradise.
Other past Giller Prize winners include 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.