The Scotiabank Giller Prize, Canada’s most lucrative literary honour, is moving from CTV to CBC.
Organizers say the annual glitzy Giller gala, where a Canadian fiction author is awarded $50,000, will air on CBC this November and through 2015.
“We consider this a perfect partnership, especially with the network’s extraordinary commitment to Canadian literary programming,” Giller Prize founder Jack Rabinovitch said in a statement.
CBC’s literary programs and features include the annual Canada Reads competition and its online CBC Book Club.
CBC Radio One also has The Next Chapterwith Shelagh Rogers, the “Stranger Than Fiction” series on Sunday Edition with Michael Enright and the Writers & Company with Eleanor Wachtel.
Under the new agreement with the Giller, CBC may possibly also use the awards gala program across all of its platforms, including CBC Radio, Specialty Channels and CBC.ca.
Rabinovitch founded the prize in honour of his late wife, literary journalist Doris Giller.
Last year’s winner was Montreal author Johanna Skibsrud for the novel The Sentimentalists.
