Scotiabank Giller Prize

She’s a two-time Giller winner for ‘Half-Blood Blues’ and ‘Washington Black.’ She’s a public intellectual. She’s not a nutritionist. What else do you want to know?

Ian Williams: Should we wish that the world would shut down every year? How could it happen again? And what would we do with all our time?

Edugyan on rewriting Washington Black’s many drafts: ‘If you had seen the first one you’d never have expected it to have come out the way it did.’

Zoe Whittall on the dream of spending days alone in a room, writing

We profile the authors of the books shortlisted by the Scotiabank Giller Prize this year. Here, Heather O’Neill on writerly vulnerability

We profile the authors of the books nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize this year. Here, Rachel Cusk, author of Outline, describes her autobiographical focus

André Alexis, who won the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize, gives advice on writing and discusses the link between the pen and the mind

If you like our book reviews, you’ll love this podcast

O’Neill’s collection of short stories is alive with talking bears, toymakers, and grandparents. But make no mistake: These fables are for adults.

Brian Bethune’s quick report from a gala where an underdog triumphed and an ex-host wasn’t missed

‘It’s stories we’re telling ourselves. They may be made up or they may be true, but the best fictions often feel true.’

Giller Prize nominee David Bezmozgis’s taut political story is set in modern Crimea