Great Grenfell Giller Debate
Channel: Memorial University Libraries
Date: 2017-11-09

The Grenfell Campus Library hosted the first annual "Great Grenfell Giller Debate" on Nov. 2, 2017. Five debaters (2 faculty members, a staff member, an English student, and a Librarian) were each given a Scotiabank Giller Prize short-listed book and attempted to convince the audience that their book should win the Giller Prize.

Thank-you debaters Dr. Ken Jacobsen, Dr. John Bodner, Pamela Gill, Kendra Morton and Louise McGillis! 

The Scotiabank Giller Prize recognizes excellence in Canadian fiction and is the largest cash prize for literature in the country with an annual award of $140,000. The five short listed nominees for 2017 are: Rachel Cusk's Transit, Ed O'Loughlin's Minds of Winter, Michael Redhill's Bellevue Square, Eden Robinson's Son of a Trickster, and Michelle Winters' I am a Truck. The library has all of the 2017 long-listed books, as well as previous years, available!

Think you can predict the Giller winner? Enter our "Guess the Giller" contest: www.surveymonkey.com/r/2017giller