Souvankham Thammavongsa wins the 2025 Giller Prize for her debut novel
The novel was chosen by a jury composed of former Giller nominees Dionne Irving, Loghan Paylor, and Deepa Rajagopalan.
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The novel was chosen by a jury composed of former Giller nominees Dionne Irving, Loghan Paylor, and Deepa Rajagopalan.
Reva's novel was also longlisted for this year's Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award in English-language fiction.
In its elliptical prose style and Eastern European sensibility, Szalay's novel reads like a cross between Ernest Hemingway and Milan Kundera.
Each of the fourteen winners, seven in English and seven in French, receive $25,000.
Karen Solie's Wellwater (House of Anansi Press) is nominated in the English-language poetry category
Krasznahorkai has been compared to other Eastern European writers such as Kafka and Thomas Bernhard.
If Thammavongsa were to win the prize, she would be the first author since Esi Edudgyan to win with back-to-back books.
Also shortlisted this year is Kiran Desai for The Loneliness of Sunny and Sonia.
The shortlist was selected by a jury comprising writers Gary Barwin, Ali Bryan, and Jasmine Sealy.
For the second year in a row, the Giller is being judged by a three-person, all-Canadian jury.