Grant Hall
The Department of English is delighted to announce our Scotiabank Giller Prize Event with 2021 winner and the department's Writer in Residence 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.
You can register for this event
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 here