In 2005, The Giller Prize teamed up with Scotiabank to create The Scotiabank Giller Prize. It is the first ever co-sponsorship for Canada’s richest literary award for fiction. Under the new agreement, the purse will double, growing to Cdn. $50,000 with $40,000 going to the winner, and $2,500 being given to each of the four finalists.
The Giller Prize was established in 1994 by Toronto businessman Jack Rabinovitch in honour of his late wife, literary journalist Doris Giller.
1. 2005 - The Time In Between by David Bergen
A Canadian father is drawn searching back to Vietnam twenty-nine years after the war in which he fought, and his family is pulled after.2. 2004 - Runaway by Alice Munro
Stories exploring the lives of women, their loves, desires, and relationships.3. 2003 - The In-Between World of Vikram Lall by M. G. Vassanji
Follows Vikram Lall from his childhood in Kenya through the Mau Mau rebellion, his government career, and his flight to Canada.
4. 2002 - The Polished Hoe by Austin Clarke
An old woman living on a West Indian plantation gives an all-night confession in which the history of the island unfolds.5. 2001 - Clara Callan: a novel by Richard B. Wright
Two intimately linked Canadian sisters embark on very different and unforseen adventures during the 1930s.6. 2000 - Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
Anil Tissera returns to her native Sri Lanka as a forensic anthropologist intent on solving the murders that are plaguing the island.7. 2000 - Mercy Among the Children by David Adams Richards
By adhering to a promise he made as a child to never harm a soul, Sydney Henderson finds himself and his family exploited in his community.8. 1999 - A Good House by Bonnie Burnard
It's 1949 and the postwar boom and hope for the future color every facet of life: the possibilities seem limitless for Bill, his wife Sylvia, and their three children.9. 1998 - The Love Of A Good Woman by Alice Munro
Stories that explore Munro's great themes - the vagaries of love, the passion that leads down unexpected paths, the chaos hovering just under the surface of things, and the strange, often comical desires of the human heart.10. 1997 - Barney's Version by Mordecai Richler
Sixty-seven-year-old Canadian rascal Bernard Panofsky decides to write "the true story of my wasted life."