Past Giller Prize winners

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2022

• Winner: The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr
• Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu
• Stray Dogs by Rawi Hage
• If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga
• We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies by Tsering Yangzom Lama

2021

• Winner: What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad
• Glorious Frazzled Beings by Angélique Lalonde
• The Son of the House by Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia
• The Listeners by Jordan Tannahill
• Fight Night by Miriam Toews

2020

• Winner: How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa
• Ridgerunner by Gil Adamson
• Here the Dark by David Bergen
• Polar Vortex by Shani Mootoo
• The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

2019

• Winner: Reproduction by Ian Williams
• Immigrant City by David Bezmozgis
• Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club by Megan Gail Coles
• The Innocents by Michael Crummey
• Dual Citizens by Alix Ohlin
• Lampedusa by Steven Price

2018

• Winner: Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
• French Exit by Patrick deWitt
• Songs of the Cold of Heart by Eric Dupont
• Motherhood by Sheila Heti
• An Ocean of Minutes by Thea Lim

2017

• Winner: Bellevue Square by Michael Redhill
• Transit by Rachel Cusk
• ​Minds of Winter by Ed O'Loughlin
• Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson
• I Am a Truck by Michelle Winters

2016

• Winner: Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
• 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona Awad
• Yiddish for Pirates by Gary Barwin
• The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
• The Party Wall by Catherine Leroux, translated by Lazer Lederhendler
• The Best Kind of People by Zoe Whittall

2015

• Winner: Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis
• Arvida by Samuel Archibald, translated by Donald Winkler
• ​Outline by Rachel Cusk
• Daydreams of Angels by Heather O'Neill
• Martin John by Anakana Schofield

2014

• Winner: Us Conductors by Sean Michaels
• The Betrayers by David Bezmozgis
• Tell by Frances Itani 
• The Girl Who Was Saturday Night by Heather O'Neill
• All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
• The Ever After of Ashwin Rao by Padma Viswanathan

2013

• Winner: Hellgoing by Lynn Coady
• ​Going Home Again by Dennis Bock
• Cataract City by Craig Davidson
• Caught by Lisa Moore
• The Crooked Maid by Dan Vyleta

2012

• Winner: 419 by Will Ferguson
• Inside by Alix Ohlin
• The Imposter Bride by Nancy Richler
• Ru by Kim Thúy, translated by Sheila Fischman
• Whirl Away by Russell Wangersky

2011

• Winner: Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
• The Free World by David Bezmozgis
• The Antagonist by Lynn Coady
• The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
• Better Living Through Plastic Explosives by Zsuzsi Gartner
• The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje

2010

• Winner: The Sentimentalists by Johanna Skibsrud
• The Matter with Morris by David Bergen
•  Light Lifting by Alexander MacLeod
• This Cake Is for the Party by Sarah Selecky
• Annabel by Kathleen Winter

2009

• Winner: The Bishop's Man by Linden MacIntyre
• The Disappeared by Kim Echlin
• The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon
• Fall by Colin McAdam
• The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels

2008

• Winner: Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden
• Barnacle Love by Anthony De Sa
• Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott
• Cockroach by Rawi Hage
• The Boys in the Trees by Mary Swan

2007

• Winner: Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay
• Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
• A Secret Between Us by Daniel Poliquin, translated by Donald Winkler
• The Assassin's Song by M.G. Vassanji
• Effigy by Alissa York

2006

• Winner: Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam
• De Niro's Game by Rawi Hage
• The Perfect Circle by Pascale Quiviger, translated by Sheila Fischman
• The Immaculate Conception by Gaétan Soucy, translated by Lazer Lederhendler
• Home Schooling by Carol Windley

2005

• Winner: The Time in Between by David Bergen
•  Luck by Joan Barfoot 
• Sweetness In The Belly by Camilla Gibb
• Alligator by Lisa Moore
• A Wall of Light by Edeet Ravel

2004

• Winner: Runaway by Alice Munro
• The Tiger Claw by Shauna Singh Baldwin
• All That Matters by Wayson Choy
• Beyond Measure by Pauline Holdstock
• Galveston by Paul Quarrington
• A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews

2003

• Winner: The In-Between World of Vikram Lall by M.G. Vassanji
• Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
• The Island Walkers by John Bemrose
• Kilter: 55 Fictions by John Gould
• The Way the Crow Flies by Ann-Marie MacDonald

2002

• Winner: The Polished Hoe by Austin Clarke
• Mount Appetite by Bill Gaston
• The Navigator of New York by Wayne Johnston
• Open by Lisa Moore
• Unless by Carol Shields

2001

• Winner: Clara Callan by Richard B. Wright
• The Russlander by Sandra Birdsell
• River Thieves by Michael Crummey
• Martin Sloane by Michael Redhill
• Stanley Park by Timothy Taylor
• The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart

2000

• Winner — tie: Mercy Among the Children by David Adams Richards
• Winner — tie: Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
• Burridge Unbound by Alan Cumyn
• A Student of Weather by Elizabeth Hay
• Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson
• The Trade by Fred Stenson

1999

• Winner: A Good House by Bonnie Burnard
• Pilgrim by Timothy Findley
• Am I Disturbing You? by Anne Hébert, translated by Sheila Fischman
• The Mark of the Angel by Nancy Huston
• Summer Gone by David Macfarlane

1998

• Winner: The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro
• Childhood by André Alexis
• A Recipe for Bees by Gail Anderson-Dargatz
• The White Bone by Barbara Gowdy
• The Healer by Greg Hollingshead
• The Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Wayne Johnston

1997

• Winner: Barney's Version by Mordecai Richler
• The Projectionist by Michael Helm
• Cereus Blooms at Night by Shani Mootoo
• Where She Has Gone by Nino Ricci
• Larry's Party by Carol Shields

1996

• Winner: Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
• The Cure for Death by Lightning by Gail Anderson-Dargatz
• Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
• Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
• The Englishman's Boy by Guy Vanderhaeghe

1995

• Winner: A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
• The Piano Man's Daughter by Timothy Findley
• Mister Sandman by Barbara Gowdy
• Like This by Leo McKay, Jr.
• The Age of Longing by Richard B. Wright

1994

• Winner: The Book of Secrets, by M.G. Vassanji​
• Casino and Other Stories by Bonnie Burnard
• What You Need by Eliza Clark
• Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai
• The Museum of Love by Steve Weiner