5 finalists for 2017 Giller Prize revealed

The five Canadian authors still in the running for the 2017 ScotiabankGiller Prize were announced on Monday morning in Toronto.

They are:

• Rachel Cusk for her novel Transit
• Ed O'Loughlin for his novel Minds of Winter
• Michael Redhill for his novel Bellevue Square
• Eden Robinson for her novel Son of a Trickster
• Michelle Winters for her novel I am a Truck

It is the first time Winters and O'Loughlin have made the Giller short list.

Robinson previously made the cut in 2000 for Monkey Beach. Redhillwas a finalist for the short list in 2001 for Martin Sloane, and Cuskreturns to the finalist category two years after hernomination for Outline in 2015.

The fivefinalists were chosen from 12 Canadian books announced in September.

• Giller Prize reveals long list and celebrates late founder

The winner will be announced on Nov. 20 and receive $100,000 the richest literary prize in Canada.

This is the first year the Giller Prize will be awarded since the death of its founder, Jack Rabinovitch.

• Read aboutthe five authors andnovels in contention for the 2017Giller Prize here.

Elana Rabinovitch talks about the first Giller Prize finals since the death of her father

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The five finalist authors for the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize were announced on Oct.2. Giller Prize founder Jack Rabinovitch died in August