Debut authors and established writers alike are in the running for Canada's $100,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize, which unveiled a short list of six contenders in Toronto on Monday. The annual prize toasts the past year's best Canadian novel or short story collection published in English, with the author receiving $100,000 and $10,000 going to each remaining finalist. CBC BOOKS | More on the 2016 Giller Prize finalistsThis year's jury — Lawrence Hill, Kathleen Winter, Jeet Heer, Samantha Harvey and Alan Warner — unveiled a long list of a dozen names chosen from more than 160 submissions earlier this month. The ceremony will air on CBC and be live-streamed at CBCBooks.ca at 9 p.m. (10 p.m. AT/10:30 p.m. NT). The Giller was established in 1994 by businessman Jack Rabinovitch in memory of his wife, literary journalist Doris Giller.

Source: CBC News September 26, 2016 13:38 UTC