ST. JOHN'S, Sept. 18, 2017 /CNW/ - The Scotiabank Giller
Prize is pleased to announce its longlist for this year's award.
The 2016 prize winner, Madeleine
Thien, announced the longlist titles during a ceremony at
The Rooms in St. John's, NL. The
twelve titles were chosen from a field of 112 books submitted by 73
publisher imprints from across Canada.
The longlist for the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize is:
- David Chariandy for his
novel Brother, published by McClelland &
Stewart
- Rachel Cusk for her novel Transit, published by
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
- David Demchuk for his
novel The Bone Mother, published by ChiZine
Publications
- Joel Thomas Hynes for his
novel We'll All Be Burned in Our Beds Some Night, published
by HarperPerennial, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
- Andrée A. Michaud for her novel Boundary,
published by Biblioasis International Translation Series,
translated by Donald Winkler
- Josip Novakovich for his
story collection Tumbleweed, published by Esplanade
Books/Véhicule Press
- Ed O'Loughlin for his
novel Minds of Winter, published by House of Anansi
Press
- Zoey Leigh Peterson for
her novel Next Year, For Sure, published by Doubleday
Canada
- Michael Redhill for his
novel Bellevue Square,
published by Doubleday Canada
- Eden Robinson for her
novel Son of a Trickster, published by Alfred A. Knopf Canada
- Deborah Willis for her
story collection The Dark and other Love Stories, published
by Hamish Hamilton Canada
- Michelle Winters for her
novel I am a Truck, published by Invisible Publishing
The longlist was selected by an esteemed five-member jury panel:
Canadian writers Anita Rau
Badami (Jury Chair), André Alexis, Lynn Coady, along with British writer
Richard Beard and American
writer Nathan Englander.
Of the longlist, the jury wrote:
"Twenty seventeen was an intriguing year for Canadian
fiction. As with any year, there were trends, themes that ran
through any number of books: the plight of the marginalized, the
ongoing influence of history on the present, the way it feels to
grow up in our country, the way the world looks to the
psychologically damaged. But 2017 was also a year of outliers, of
books that were eccentric, challenging or thrillingly strange,
books that took us to amusing or disturbing places. In fact, you
could say that the exceptional was one of 2017's trends.
It gave the impression of a world in transition: searching inward
as much as outward, wary but engaged."
This year's shortlist will be announced at a press event to be
held at the Scotiabank Centre in Toronto on Monday,
October 2.
The Scotiabank Giller Prize is delighted to present a series of
special readings featuring this year's shortlisted authors, taking
place in Calgary on
October 12, Vancouver on October 16, Halifax on October
26, Ottawa on
November 1, Toronto on November 6 and
London, U.K. on
November 9. Between the
Pages: An Evening with the Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalists
will take you inside the minds and creative lives of the writers on
the 2017 shortlist. For venue and ticket information, please
visit:
www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/news-events/events-and-important-dates/
The 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize will air on Mon. Nov.
20, on CBC at 8 p.m. (12
AT/12:30 NT), CBC Radio One at 8
p.m. (9 AT/9:30 NT) and will be livestreamed
at CBCBooks.ca.
Beginning in 2017, Audible.ca will be the exclusive audiobook
sponsor of the Scotiabank Giller Prize.
About the Prize
The Scotiabank Giller Prize, founded in 1994, highlights the
very best in Canadian fiction year after year. The prize 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, the late Toronto
businessman Jack Rabinovitch, who
passed away in August 2017.
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a uniquely Canadian perspective. In 2017, CBC/Radio-Canada will be
at the heart of the celebrations and conversations with special
2017-themed multiplatform programming and events across Canada.
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