Mona Awad and Souvankham Thammavongsa appear on a Giller shortlist comprising 100% multinational titles
If Thammavongsa were to win the prize, she would be the first author since Esi Edudgyan to win with back-to-back books.
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If Thammavongsa were to win the prize, she would be the first author since Esi Edudgyan to win with back-to-back books.
For the second year in a row, the Giller is being judged by a three-person, all-Canadian jury.
This is, to put it mildly, a difficult time for an arts organization to be chasing funding.
Two jurors – Jordan Abel and Aaron Tucker – have been quietly scrubbed from the Giller Prize website.
Maysam Abu Khreibeh, a Palestinian writer and organizer, called the 2023 protest the "bare minimum" that could be done to push back against the ongoing conflict in Gaza
The counter-gala was organized by CanLit Responds and the activist group No Arms in the Arts.
"It’s clear that the lines between what is public and what’s private has been blurred," said Elana Rabinovitch.
"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."
With fully three-fifths of the nominations, the Giller shortlist continues the hot streak for Penguin Random House Canada.
The two other nominees for this year's prize also appear on the Giller longlist.