Author André Alexis

Three former winners have landed on the longlist for the 2025 Giller Prize, Canada’s richest prize for fiction. Ian Williams (for his novel You’ve Changed ), André Alexis (for his short story collection Other Worlds ) and Souvankham Thammavongsa (for her novel Pick a Colour ) are among the 14 authors in contention for the $100,000 award.

In July, the Giller Foundation announced that the prize would be forced to cease operations at the end of this year without federal funding. The Giller Prize was known as the Scotiabank Giller Prize from 2005 to 2023. Its sponsorship relationship with the bank does not extend beyond 2025.

The foundation faced criticism and protests for its association with the bank, whose subsidiary 1832 Asset Management at one point was the

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