The Giller Prize has parted ways with its lead sponsor Scotiabank more than a year after members of the literary community began protesting the bank's ties to an Israeli arms manufacturer. The ...

TORONTO — The Giller Prize has parted ways with its lead sponsor Scotiabank more than a year after members of the literary community began protesting the bank's ties to an Israeli arms manufacturer.

Giller Foundation executive director says the name has been removed from the prize title to keep the focus on the authors. Updated Sept. 4, 2024 at 5:20 p.m. Sept. 4, 2024 ...

More than 20 Canadian authors have cut ties with the Giller Foundation and its prestigious $100,000 literary prize over sponsor Scotiabank's investment in an Israeli defence contractor. The prize ...

Anti-Israel activists are escorted out of the Four Seasons Hotel by police after interrupting the Scotiabank Giller Prize ceremony in Toronto, on Nov. 13, 2023.

The executive director of the Giller Prize privately told authors that she was working to end the Giller’s financial partnership with its lead sponsor, Scotiabank, amid growing controversy ...

As a crowd outside protested Giller Prize sponsors and their connections to Israel's military, Anne Michaels was named this year's winner of the $100,000 CAD prize for fiction.

Now is not the time for Canada’s literary elite to be silent or dismissive. Protesters holding signs reading "Scotiabank funds genocide" at the 2023 Giller Prize Awards Gala. Credit: Palestinian Youth ...

Neither the Giller Prize nor Bernstein responded to requests for comment. The boycott meant that the Giller Prize joined a long list of cultural institutions, particularly in publishing , that ...

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Two international members of the prize’s jury also resigned over its sponsors’ Israel ties, and Bernstein also pulled out of a planned appearance with a Giller-affiliated virtual book club ...