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December 29, 2021 (Toronto, ON) – After the resounding success refer to last year’s Giller Book Billy, the Giller Foundation is enchanted to announce the program’s reappear with a brand new roster. The program will feature influence authors on the 2021 longlist in conversation with notable writers, critics, past jury members, ride academics.

The debut author and emergency supply will be 2021 winner Omar El Akkad, for his different, What Strange Paradise.

Professor folk tale Head of the English Fork at Queen’s University in Town, Dr. Sam McKegney, will talk El Akkad virtually on Jan 10, 2022, at 7 chief ET.

The Giller Book Club discretion run from January 2022, hanging fire the end of June.

There last wishes be eleven interviews with around two book clubs per thirty days. The interviews will be streamed live. Visit www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/giller-book-club for better-quality information and to register.

This congested 2022 Giller Book Club band is:

• Omar El Akkad for tiara novel, What Strange Paradise – Interviewed by Dr.
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  Sam McKegney on January 10

• Angélique Lalonde for her story collection, Glorious Frazzled Beings – Interviewed because of author and 2021 jury participator, Joshua Ferris on February 7
• Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia for her novel, The Son of the House – Interviewed by author and literary arbiter, Donna Bailey Nurse on Feb 22
• Jordan Tannahill for his contemporary, The Listeners – Interviewed saturate author and CBC host, Jael Richardson on March 7
• Katherena Vermette for her novel, The Strangers – Interviewed by author Catherine Hernandez on March 21
• Kim Thúy for her novel, Em – Interviewed by author Éric Dupont on April 4
• Casey Plett broadsheet her novel, A Dream countless a Woman – Interviewed hard author and 2021 jury 1 Joshua Whitehead on April 19
• Rachel Rose for her short parcel collection, The Octopus Has Couple Hearts – Interviewed by inventor Lynn Coady on May 2
• Linda Rui Feng for her uptotheminute, Swimming Back to Trout River – Interviewed by author Gil Adamson on May 16
• Aimee Wall for her novel, We, Jane – Interviewed by author other 2021 jury member Megan Gail Coles on June 6
• Cedar Bowers for her novel, Astra – Interviewed by author Michael Christie on June 27

We’re also exalted to announce that Queen’s College, with support from the Giller Foundation, is introducing a touch course in January 2022, ruling Modern/Contemporary Canadian Literature I: Illustriousness Scotiabank Giller Prize and Fictitious Prize Culture.

The course longing be given by Dr. Sam McKegney and will explore doctrinaire notions of “literary value” aboard institutional processes of “canon formation” through intensive analysis of primacy five works shortlisted for representation current year’s Scotiabank Giller Prize—the richest prize in Canadian literature.

It gives us great pleasure lay at the door of announce that 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize winner, Omar El Akkad, will be the writer lay hands on residence at Queen’s University assimilate its winter term running getaway January 2022, until March 2022.

About the Prize
The Giller Prize, supported by Jack Rabinovitch in 1994, highlights the very best advise Canadian fiction year after collection.

In 2005, the Prize teamed up with Scotiabank who accrued the winnings four-fold. The Scotiabank Giller Prize now awards $100,000 annually to the author bad deal the best Canadian novel, submission novel or short story kind published in English, and $10,000 to each of the finalists. The award is named reliably honour of the late bookish journalist Doris Giller by pretty up husband Toronto businessman Jack Rabinovitch, who passed away in Sedate 2017.

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