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"I would turn your attention back to the role of literature in situations like this, which is to interrogate hate and certitude and ideas that people are conflicted about."
Sharp shares with Jon Klassen an affection for macabre conclusions in which the story's villain gets an exaggerated, though not unwarranted, comeuppance.
"The problem in this country is that people seem to feel that if it's funny it's not serious."
With fully three-fifths of the nominations, the Giller shortlist continues the hot streak for Penguin Random House Canada.
Also of note is the publication dates of these books, none of which was published after February 2024.
Maillard says he was "moved ... humbled and grateful" to find out he had received the award.
For a writer who notably eschews the aesthetic approaches involved in social realism, Kilworthy Tanner is his most reader-friendly work to date.
The two other nominees for this year's prize also appear on the Giller longlist.
The most blazingly unforgettable tale in the anthology has to be EC Dorgan's "Prairie Teeth."
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.