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.
Gasco has endowed her story with something that is terribly unfashionable in book club circles and social media feeds: an unlikable narrator.
Even in a year fraught with anxiety and discord, writers connected with readers to provide succour, solace, entertainment, and provocation.
There are – for the moment, at least – publishers willing to try innovative approaches to keeping literary periodicals alive in one form or another.
“We all have this conversation about who can write what,” Jordan says. “This collection asks, does it matter?”
Souvankham Thammavongsa's story is a multi-layered tale of a former boxer who takes a job at his sister's nail salon.