Anne Michaels and Deepa Rajagopalan are among the five authors shortlisted for the 2024 Giller Prize
With fully three-fifths of the nominations, the Giller shortlist continues the hot streak for Penguin Random House Canada.
Canisia Lubrin and Kent Monkman among five nominees for the Governor General’s Literary Awards
Also of note is the publication dates of these books, none of which was published after February 2024.
Novelist and mentor Keith Maillard awarded the B.C. Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence
Maillard says he was "moved ... humbled and grateful" to find out he had received the award.
Sex, drugs, rock ’n’ roll, and CanLit pettiness collide in Jean Marc Ah-Sen’s latest novel
For a writer who notably eschews the aesthetic approaches involved in social realism, Kilworthy Tanner is his most reader-friendly work to date.
Three of five Atwood Gibson Prize nominees are writers who pulled their books from Giller contention
The two other nominees for this year's prize also appear on the Giller longlist.
Naben Ruthnum, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and Camilla Grudova are included in an anthology perfect for shorter days with chillier temperatures
The most blazingly unforgettable tale in the anthology has to be EC Dorgan's "Prairie Teeth."
Rescue mission: Dionne Brand’s latest work of nonfiction examines what the English literary canon leaves out for readers like her
A reader like Brand, we understand, is someone who has never felt represented in the literature presented to her as the great and enduring work of the past.
Authors longlisted for the 2024 Giller Prize subject to targeted attacks online
The campaign of intimidation has led to the Giller Foundation taking the extraordinary step of releasing a public plea for the harassment to end.
A dozen books longlisted for a 2024 Giller Prize that has changed its name in the face of ongoing protests
The refusal to cut ties with Scotiabank but merely suppress its name in public is likely to further inflame those who feel the association with the bank is a moral stain on the prize.
S.C. Lalli’s latest mystery represents an example of a burgeoning subgenre focused on critiques of the ultra-rich
As a commercial novel about the ultra-rich, The Plus One wants to have it both ways.