V.V. Ganeshananthan Wins Carol Shields Prize

V.V. Ganeshananthan is the winner of the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction for her novel Brotherless Night (Random House). The award comes with a $100,000 purse, making it the largest English-language literary prize in the world for women and nonbinary authors.

This year's finalists—Eleanor Catton (Birnam Wood), Claudia Dey (Daughter), Kim Coleman Foote (Coleman Hill), and Janika Oza (A History of Burning)—will each receive $12,500. The jury comprised Jen Sookfong Lee (chair), Laila Lalami, Claire Messud, Dolen Perkins-Valdez, and Eden Robinson.

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