Twelve writers have been longlisted for the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize. The $100,000 award annually recognizes the best in Canadian fiction.
The announcement was hosted and livestreamed at an event in St. John’s by author Suzette Mayr, who won the 2022 Giller Prize for her novel The Sleeping Car Porter.
Former CBC Literary Prize finalists feature prominently on the longlist. Winnipeg’s David Bergen, author of Away From The Dead, won the Short Story Prize in 1999 for his story How can men share a bottle of vodka. Vancouver-based Kevin Chong was longlisted for the 2020 Nonfiction Prize for White Space. Nina Dunic, author
