AUDIBLE.CA AND SCOTIABANK GIVE THE GIFT OF A
LITERARY ESCAPE TO CANADIANS LISTENING #ALONETOGETHER
TORONTO, April 30, 2020 /CNW/ - Scotiabank
and Audible.ca, the leading spoken-word entertainment and
audiobook producer and provider, announced today that audio
editions of 10 of Canada's
acclaimed Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning books will be made
available to Canadian listeners for free.
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.
The collection of Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning audiobooks
will be available on Audible.ca starting today, through to
June 28, encouraging Canadians to
immerse themselves in award-winning Canadian storytelling.
"I'm thrilled that Alias Grace is part of such a
thoughtful initiative," said Margaret
Atwood, Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning author of Alias
Grace. "Audible.ca, Scotiabank, and the Giller Prize have
brought together a diverse mix of stories – entertaining,
compelling, adventurous. It's a great diversion during this
challenging time. Listen and enjoy."
"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."
The Scotiabank Giller Prize books available for free download
until June 28 on Audible.ca are:
- A Fine Balance, Rohinton
Mistry (1995)
- Alias Grace, Margaret
Atwood (1996)
- Barney's Version, Mordecai Richler (1997)
- Runaway, Alice Munro
(2004)
- Through Black Spruce, Joseph
Boyden (2008)
- The Sentimentalists, Johanna
Skibsrud (2010)
- 419, Will Ferguson
(2012)
- Hellgoing, Lynn Coady
(2013)
- Us Conductors, Sean
Michaels (2014)
- Fifteen Dogs, André Alexis (2015)
The Scotiabank Giller Prize initiative is the latest in a series
of free offerings from Audible.ca in recent weeks, following the
launch of Audible Stories, a service that allows anyone, anywhere
to stream hundreds of free, full-length audiobooks and other
titles, many for children and families. Other offerings include the
free nationwide distribution of James
Taylor's acclaimed words-and-music audio memoir Break
Shot; a collaboration with Pottermore Publishing, supporting
the Harry Potter At Home effort by making the audiobook of
Harry Potter and the
Philosopher's Stone free on Audible Stories and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone free
to stream on Alexa home devices; and Audible Sleep, a free
collection of new sleep, relaxation and meditation content.
To download and listen to select Scotiabank Giller Prize winning
books or to find out more, visit audible.ca/listenwithgiller .
About Audible, Inc.
Audible, Inc., an
Amazon.com, Inc. subsidiary (NASDAQ:AMZN), is the leading provider
of premium digital spoken audio content, offering customers a new
way to enhance and enrich their lives every day. Audible content
includes more than 475,000 audio programs from leading audiobook
publishers, broadcasters, entertainers, magazine and newspaper
publishers, and business information providers.
About the Prize
The Giller Prize, founded by
Jack Rabinovitch in 1994, highlights
the very best in Canadian fiction year after year. In 2005, the
prize teamed up with Scotiabank who increased the winnings
four-fold. The Scotiabank Giller Prize now awards $100,000 annually to the author of the best
Canadian novel or short story collection published in English, and
$10,000 to each of the finalists. The
award is named in honour of the late literary journalist
Doris Giller by her husband Toronto
businessman Jack Rabinovitch, who
passed away in August 2017.
About
Scotiabank
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purpose: "for every future," we help our customers, their
families and their communities achieve success through a broad
range of advice, products and services, including personal and
commercial banking, wealth management and private banking,
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of approximately 100,000 employees and assets of approximately
$1.2 trillion (as at January 31, 2020), Scotiabank trades on the
Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: BNS) and New York Stock Exchange
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SOURCE Scotiabank