The Giller Prize

The Governnor General's Award

The Nobel Prize for Literature

The Pulitzer Prize for Literature

The Giller Prize

The Giller prize awards $25,000 annually to the author of the best Canadian novel or short story collection published in English. The Giller prize is named in honour of the late literary journalist Doris Giller and was founded in 1994 by her husband, Toronto businessman Jack Rabinovitch.
www.thegillerprize.ca

2007 Winner:

Elizabeth Hay - Late Nights on Air

Also nominated:

Michael Ondaatje for Divisadero
Daniel Poliquin for A Secret Between Us, translation by Donald Winkler
M.G. Vassanji for The Assassin’s Song
Alissa York for Effigy

2006

Vincent Lam - Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures

Also nominated:

Rawi Hage for De Niro’s Game
Pascale Quiviger for The Perfect Circle, translation by Sheila Fischman
Gaétan Soucy for The Immaculate Conception, translation by Lazer Lederhendler
Carol Windley for Home Schooling

2005 Winner

David Bergen for The Time In Between

Also nominated:
Joan Barfoot for Luck
Camilla Gibb for Sweetness In The Belly
Lisa Moore for Alligator
Edeet Ravel for A Wall of Light

2004
Munro, Alice - Runaway

Also nominated:
Baldwin, Shauna Singh - The Tiger Claw
Choy, Wayson - All That Matters
Holdstock, Pauline - Beyond Measure
Quarrington, Paul - Galveston
Toews, Miriam - A Complicated Kindness

2003
Vassanji, M.G. - The In-Between World of Vikram Lall

Also nominated:
Atwood, Margaret - Oryx and Crake
Bemrose, John - The Island Walkers
Gould, John - Kilter: 55 Fictions
MacDonald, Anne-Marie - The Way the Crow Flies

2002
Clarke, Austin - The Polished Hoe

Also nominated:
Gaston, Bill - Mount Appetite
Johnston, Wayne - The Navigator of New York
Moore, Lisa - Open: Stories
Shields, Carol - Unless

2001 Wright, Richard B. - Clara Callan
2000 (tie) Ondaatje, Michael - Anil's Ghost
Richards, David Adams - Mercy Among the Children
1999 Burnard, Bonnie - A Good House
1998 Munro, Alice - The Love of Good Woman
1997 Richler, Mordecai - Barney's Version
1996 Atwood, Margaret - Alias Grace
1995 Mistry, Rohinton - A Fine Balance
1994 Vassanji, M.G. - The Book of Secrets

The Governor General's Literary Awards

The Governor General's Literary Awards are given annually to the best English-language and the best French-language book in each of the seven categories of Fiction, Literary Nonfiction, Poetry, Drama, Children's Literature (text), Children's Literature (illustration) and Translation (from French to English).
Governor General's Literary Awards site

2007

Michael Ondaatje - Divisadero

2006

Peter Behrens - The Law of Dreams

2005

David Gilmour - A Perfect Night to Go to China

2004
Toews, Miriam - A Complicated Kindness

Also nominated:
Bezmozgis, David - Natasha and Other Stories
Cole, Trevor - Norman Bray, In the Performance of his Life
McAdam, Colin - Some Great Thing
Munro, Alice - Runaway

2003
Glover, Douglas - Elle

Also nominated:
Atwood, Margaret - Oryx and Crake
Hay, Elizabeth - Garbo Laughs
McNeil, Jean - Private View
Ravel, Edeet - Ten Thousand Lovers

2002
Sawai, Gloria - A Song for Nettie Johnson

Also nominated:
Berger, David - The Case of Lena S.
Ireland, Ann - Exile
Johnston, Wayne - The Navigator of New York
Shields, Carol - Unless

2001
Wright, Richard B. - Clara Callan

Also nominated:
Martel, Yann - Life of Pi
McWatt, Tessa - Dragons Cry
Urquhart, Jane - The Stone Carvers
Wharton, Thomas - Salamander

2000
Ondaatje, Michael - Anil's Ghost

Also nominated:
Atwood, Margaret - The Blind Assassin
Clarke, Austin - The Question
Richards, David Adams - Mercy Among the Children
Robinson, Eden - Monkey Beach

1999 Cohen, Matt - Elizabeth and After
1998 Schoemperlen, Diane - Forms of Devotion
1997 Urquhart, Jane - The Underpainter
1996 Vanderhaeghe, Guy - The Englishman's Boy
1995 Hollingshead, Greg -The Roaring Girl
1994 Wiebe, Rudy - A Discovery of Strangers
1993 Shields, Carol - The Stone Diaries
1992 Ondaatje, Michael - The English Patient
1991 Mistry, Rohinton - Such a Long Journey
1990 Ricci, Nino - The Lives of the Saints
1989 Quarrington, Paul - Whale Music
1988 Richards, David Adams - Nights below Station Street
1987 Kelly, M.T.A. - A Dream like Mine
1986 Munro, Alice - The Progress of Love
1985 Atwood, Margaret - The Handmaid's Tale
1984 Skvorecky, Josef - Engineer of Human Souls
1983 Rooke, Leon - Shakespeare's Dog
1982 Vanderhaeghe, Guy - Man Descending

The Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature has recognized the whole spectrum of literary works including poetry, novels, short stories, plays, essays and speeches. Starting off with the first prize in 1901 to the poet and philosopher Sully Prudhomme, author of Stances et Poèmes (1865), the Prize has distinguished the works of authors from different languages and cultural backgrounds. It has been awarded to unknown masters as well as authors acclaimed worldwide. – www.nobelprize.org

2007 Doris Lessing
2006 Orhan Pamuk
2005 Harold Pinter
2004 Elfriede Jelinek
2003 J.M. Coetzee
2002 Imre Kertész
2001 V.S. Naipaul
2000 Gao Xingjian
1999 Günter Grass
1998 José Saramago
1997 Dario Fo
1996 Wislawa Szymborska
1995 Seamus Heaney
1994 Kenzaburo Oe
1993 Toni Morrison
1992 Derek Walcott
1991 Nadine Gordimer
1990 Octavio Paz
1989 Camilo José Cela
1988 Naguib Mahfouz
1987 Joseph Brodsky

The Pulitzer Prize - Fiction

The Pulitzer Prize, established through a bequest in Joseph Pulitzer’s will in 1904, is designed as an incentive to encourage excellence in writing. Originally, Pulitzer specified four awards, however the number of awards has increased over the years and currently 21 awards are presented in categories such as fiction, poetry, music, and photography, in addition to the original journalistic awards. The book award category for fiction recognizes distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life. Additional information on this award is available on the award website: www.pulitzer.org

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy
2006 March by Geraldine Brooks
2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones
2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
2002 Empire Falls by Richard Russo
2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham
1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth
1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford
1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike
1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos