The three new annual $10,000 scholarships are the latest step in an attempt to expand the Giller Foundation’s work beyond its namesake prize
The Giller Foundation is teaming up with real-estate firm Mantella Corp. to launch three annual $10,000 scholarships for Black, Indigenous and racialized high-school students planning to study creative writing and literature.
Named after literary journalist Doris Giller, the Giller Foundation was founded by her husband Jack Rabinovitch in 1994 to celebrate Canadian fiction authors with an annual $25,000 prize. Now worth $100,000 and sponsored by the Bank of Nova Scotia, the Scotiabank Giller Prize has in recent years been awarded to authors including Suzette Mayr, Omar El Akkad, Souvankham Thammavongsa and Ian Williams.
“The consequences of not pursuing an artistic life or a creative life is you get all these people in midlife who are frustrated, where they haven’t been creative or expressive,” Williams said. “If you cross that with race, and other kinds of pressures, with no creative outlet, it becomes even worse.”
Racialized writers have seen more promotion from Canada’s literary world more recently – they accounted for the entirety of the Giller shortlist last year. Rabinovitch said the scholarships would help contribute to “a cultural revolution that, to my mind, reflects the true face of Canada.”
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