Scotiabank Giller Prize event

Join the Department of English in celebrating our writer in residence and 2021 recipient of the Scotiabank Giller Prize, Omar El Akkad. 

This free in-person event, celebrating Omar's 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning novel What Strange Paradise, features a live reading by the author, a book signing, and contributions from writers Joshua Whitehead, Megan Coles, Esi Edugyan, and Juliane Okot Bitek.

Members of Dr. Sam McKegney's course, ENGL 466: "Topics in Modern/Contemporary Canadian Literature I: The Scotiabank Giller Prize and Literary Prize Culture" are currently working on this events conception and delivery. Learn more about the course.