Watch the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist announcement at 9:30 a.m. ET on Sept. 6

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· Posted: Sep 05, 2023 4:19 PM EDT | Last Updated: September 5

Tune successful astatine 9:30 a.m. ET connected Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023 to find retired which books volition beryllium vying for the $100,000 prize — the richest successful Canadian literature. The $100,000 grant annually recognizes the champion successful Canadian fiction.

This twelvemonth the prize celebrates its 30th anniversary. The 2023 shortlist volition beryllium announced connected Oct. 11, 2023 and the victor volition beryllium announced connected Nov. 13, 2023.

The longlist announcement volition be in St. John's. The uncover volition beryllium hosted by writer Suzette Mayr, who won the 2022 prize for her novel The Sleeping Car Porter.

• Suzette Mayr explores Black queerness & joyousness successful The Sleeping Car Porter — and won the Giller Prize for it

Other past Giller Prize winners include Omar El Akkad for What Strange Paradise, Souvankham Thammavongsa for How to Pronounce Knife, Esi Edugyan for Washington Black, Michael Redhill for Bellevue Square, Margaret Atwood for Alias Grace, Mordecai Richler for Barney's Version, Alice Munro for Runaway, André Alexis for Fifteen Dogs and Madeleine Thien for Do Not Say We Have Nothing.

• Meet 14 Canadian writers who won Canada's biggest literate awards this year

Canadian writer and fabrication writer Ian Williams is chairing the five-person assemblage this year. Joining him are Canadian authors Sharon Bala, Brian Thomas Isaac an planetary authors Rebecca Makkai and Neel Mukherjee.

Toronto businessman Jack Rabinovitch founded the prize successful honour of his precocious wife, literate writer Doris Giller, successful 1994. Rabinovitch died successful 2017 astatine the property of 87.