Audible Canada is giving away 10 of Canada’s acclaimed Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning audiobooks for free. They will be available on the platform until June 28th, which should give you all enough time to consume them all.
Margaret Atwood’s internationally renowned Alias Grace and Mordecai Richler’s iconic Barney’s Version are among the Scotiabank Giller-crowned works available for Canadian customers to download and keep in their collections forever. Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance, Alice Munro’s Runaway, Joseph Boyden’s Through Black Spruce, Johanna Skibsrud’s The Sentimentalists, Will Ferguson’s 419, Lynn Coady’s Hellgoing, Sean Michaels’ Us Conductors and André Alexis’ Fifteen Dogs are also available to download.
“With increased time at home, we know that many Canadians are looking for ways to be informed, inspired and entertained. That was our motivation to provide this access to Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning content,” adds Georgia Knox, Canada Country Manager for Audible. “On Audible.ca we want to celebrate the creativity of the Canadian authors who spark joy and intrigue amongst all of us with their writing. We’re excited to be working with Scotiabank to make some of these masterpieces available for all Canadians to enjoy.”
Elana Rabinovitch, Executive Director of the Scotiabank Giller Prize says, “I am so grateful to Audible.ca and Scotiabank for making this unprecedented opportunity available to Canadians. During this difficult time, it’s more important than ever to fire our imaginations with truly compelling books by some of Canada’s finest storytellers.”
Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the past fifteen years. Newspapers and websites such as the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and the New York Times have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
