Canada's Giller Prize Longlist Announced
The longlist for the 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize was announced, and includes many first-time nominees. The prize, which is among the most prestigious in Canada for fiction, offers C$100,000 to the winner and C$10,000 to each author of a shortlisted book. The winner will be announced on November 8. T
This year's longlist of 12 was chosen from 132 titles submitted for consideration. The longlist is as follows:
- Cedar Bowers for her novel Astra (McClelland & Stewart)
- Omar El Akkad for his novel, What Strange Paradise (McClelland & Stewart)
- Angelique Lalonde for her story collection, Glorious Frazzled Beings (House of Anansi)
- Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onubia for her novel The Son of the House (Dundurn)
- Casey Plett for her story collection, A Dream of a Woman (Arsenal Pulp)
- Rachel Rose for her story collection The Octopus Has Three Hearts (Douglas & McIntyre)
- Linda Rui Feng for her novel Swimming Back to Trout River (Simon & Schuster)
- Jordan Tannahill for his novel The Listeners (HarperCollins Canada)
- Kim Thuy for her novel, Em (Random House Canada)
- Miriam Toews for her novel Fight Night (Knopf Canada)
- Katherena Vermette for her novel The Strangers (Hamish Hamilton Canada)
- Aimee Wall for her novel We, Jane (Book*hug)